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Parba Ice dagger & Stubai Ice Piton(dagger)

Accession Number

478.2008.1a-b

Object Name

Parba Ice dagger & Stubai Ice Piton(dagger)

Created

25/11/2008

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

25/11/2008

Brief Description

'Parba' ice dagger with rubber hand grip and leather wrist loop. Stubai ice piton customised to make an ice dagger with nylon wrist loop.

Materials

rubber, metal, nylon

Dimensions

a- 23.5(L)cms b- 28.5(L) cms

Number Of Objects

2

Inscription Description

a - "PARBA REGD" inscribed on one side of blade.

Colour

silver, black, red, grey

Maker

a - Parba b- Stubai

Object Production Place

a - England b- Austria

Provenance

We have kept these two ice daggers together as they were both donated by our old pal, John Cheesmond, a retired mountain guide. The Parba is a custom made ice dagger whilst the other one is a Stubai Ice Piton, customized to make a dagger.
Daggering was a very short and very scary phase in the evolution of ice climbing when folk were venturing out onto ever steeeper ice around 1969/70. Leading exponents of the 'art' in Scotland were John Cunningham and Bill March.
Parba was a mountaineering equipment company run by Paul Seddon who eventually joined forces with Troll Equipment. The Austrian company, Stubai, have been making mountain hardware for over a century and the ice piton we have here dates from the 1950's.

Acquisition Method

Donated by John Cheesmond

Acquisition Date

25/11/2008

Condition Check Date

28/04/2009

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

28/04/2009

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