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A Rare And Elaborate Mexican Rowel Spur
17th/18th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare And Elaborate Mexican Rowel Spur
17th/18th Century

Entirely of iron and for the right foot, with short moulded neck continuing as a long upcurved rowel-box, each side of flattened triangular section and each carrying two large coiled spring-like guards with trefoil terminals, a further smaller one behind, the front terminating in a large disc pierced with running foliage within a roped border on each side of the rowel, the latter comprising seven slender sharply pointed spikes set alternately with shorter key-shaped projections (one repaired, one slightly incomplete), the heel-band chiselled with conventional foliage and the figure of a lion against a punched ground, terminals pierced and chiselled with foliage, one with double eagles head above, and retaining its original foot-links (some pitting overall)
31 cm.

Footnotes

For other Mexican spurs (so-called Conquistador spurs) see Antonio Cortes, Hierros Forjados, Coleccion del Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Historia Y Etnografia, 1935, pp. 114-118, pls. 17-26; Stephen V. Grancsay, A Loan Exhibition Of Equestrian Equipment From The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, May 4 to July 3, 1955, nos. 115 and 118 (illustrated); and M. Simmonds & T. Turley, Southwestern Colonial Ironwork, The Spanish Blacksmithing Tradition from Texas to California, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1980, pp. 110-13

Cf. a similar spur sold at Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour, 16 December 2002, lot 77

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