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Lot 67

A Very Rare Medieval Boy's Sword Of Oakeshott Type XVI
Mid-14th Century, Possibly French

28 November 2012, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Medieval Boy's Sword Of Oakeshott Type XVI
Mid-14th Century, Possibly French

In excavated condition, with tapering double-edged blade of flattened ovoidal section with central fuller over two thirds of its length on both sides, hilt comprising slightly arched quillons with rounded tips, flat tapering tang, and chamfered wheel pommel
56 cm. blade, 67.8 cm. overall

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired from Robert-Jean Charles, Paris, July 1950

Literature:
Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, To riddersværd i en dansk privatsamling, 1952, p. 31, fig. 5
Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 46, pp. 35, 78 and 85, figs. 7 and 21

For another boy's sword formerly in the Mrs. G.E.P. How Collection and sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms and Armour ..., 25 July, 2007, lot 117

The quillons conform to Oakeshott's Style 7 with a pommel of Type I

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