Artificial right hand (known as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_hand_(prosthesis)" class="extiw" title="en:Iron hand (prosthesis)">iron hand</a>), 16<sup>th</sup>/17<sup>th</sup> century. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skokloster_Castle" class="extiw" title="en:Skokloster Castle">Skokloster Castle</a>, object no.  12286.<br><i><b>Original description:</b></i> Right hand and forearm of dark tempered steel c. 1575-1625.
<p>According to legend the arm of Royal Secretary Olof Sverkersson Elfkarl, in office during the reign of Swedish kings Johan III, Sigismund and Karl IX.<br>
Olof Sverkersson was called Olof Turncoat in many parts of the country and in Finland (which was a part of Sweden at that time) they called him Olof Perkelson, i.e. Olof Son of the Devil.<br></p>
The arm was included in the Skokloster collection in the 1750’s when a substantial amount of objects were transferred from Salsta manor, previously owned by the Bielke family, to Skokloster. The arm had been in the Bielke armoury “since time immemorial”.
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