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Lot 117

A Very Rare Medieval Boy's Sword
Early 14th Century, Probably English

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Medieval Boy's Sword
Early 14th Century, Probably English

In excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, iron hilt comprising slender arched quillons of square section tapering towards the tips, and thick pommel of diamond section flattened at the front and back
37.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

The form of the pommel is recorded on only four other swords; two very similar boy's swords respectively in the City Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow and the collection of the Late Sir James Mann, and two adults' swords of which one was found in the River Witham, near Lincoln. See Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Middelalderens Tveæggede Sværd, 1954, vol. II, p.26, no. 17 and pl. XXXIII (f); and R.E. Oakeshott, The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, 1965, pls. 20, A and 26

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