23rd Apr, 2025 10:00

SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION - TO INCLUDE THE BURL COLLECTION

 
Lot 616
 

616

AN EARLY 15TH CENTURY TWO-HANDED SWORD OF OAKESHOTT TYPE XVII

103.5cm broad sword blade incised with crosses and a wolf (?) in the short central fullers and with good traces of latten inlay, characteristic hilt with slender tapering square section quillons, slender tapering tang, sharply tapering octagonal elongated pommel with domed top. See Royal Armouries IX.16 for a very similar example, described as English and recovered from the Thames at London Bridge. The tang on the example in the Royal Armouries is measured at 16cm while this example is longer at 19.7cm. See also Carlo Pagiarinno, The Royal Armouries, Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Arms and Armour Volume I.

Sold for £4,000


 

103.5cm broad sword blade incised with crosses and a wolf (?) in the short central fullers and with good traces of latten inlay, characteristic hilt with slender tapering square section quillons, slender tapering tang, sharply tapering octagonal elongated pommel with domed top. See Royal Armouries IX.16 for a very similar example, described as English and recovered from the Thames at London Bridge. The tang on the example in the Royal Armouries is measured at 16cm while this example is longer at 19.7cm. See also Carlo Pagiarinno, The Royal Armouries, Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Arms and Armour Volume I.

Auction: SPRING VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION - TO INCLUDE THE BURL COLLECTION, 23rd Apr, 2025

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