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Lot 98W
A Large Italian Corseca Also Known As A Furloni Or SpetumEarly 16th Century
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,250 inc. premium
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Early 16th Century
Early 16th Century
With broad tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section clipped-in at the base and with large up-curved single-edged side-wings at the base, one stamped on each side with a circular maker's mark, and made in one with the faceted socket of tapering circular section with tapering strap on both sides, on old wooden staff of octagonal section becoming circular (light surface pitting)
98 cm. head
98 cm. head
Footnotes
For a similar example formerly in the Dr. John Waldman Collection and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour ..., 26 November 2008, lot 263. Other examples are in the Doges Palace, Venice








