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Lot 242

A Lobster-Tailed Pot
Mid-17th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Lobster-Tailed Pot
Mid-17th Century

Of blackened steel, with two-piece skull (two small holes) and low turned comb, pivoted fall with recessed turned edge and three-bar face-guard joined at the bottom to form a blunt point, the edge struck with a crowned 'A' mark of the Armourers' Company, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of three simulated lames with central line engraving and turned border, triangular single-plate ear-pieces (detached), and dome-headed lining rivets (some pitting overall)
25 cm. high

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