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Lot 95W
A Rare Italian FriuliMid-Late 16th Century
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Mid-Late 16th Century
Mid-Late 16th Century
With long double-edged leaf-shaped blade of flattened diamond section sharply-pointed at the tip, flanked at the base by two curved double-edged blades each with claw-like projection of diamond section, tapering faceted socket, and side-straps, on wooden staff of circular section cut with narrow longitudinal flutes (some light pitting)
77.3 cm. head
77.3 cm. head
Footnotes
For a similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 29.156.38) see John Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ..., 2005, pp. 179-180, fig. 147








