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A Medieval Sword Of Oakeshott Type XVMid-Late 14th Century
28 November 2012, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Medieval Sword Of Oakeshott Type XV
Mid-Late 14th Century
Mid-Late 14th Century
In excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section with a latten-filled bladesmith's mark on both sides towards the forte, hilt comprising tapering quillons swelling at the forte and with downbent bluntly-pointed tips, flat sharply tapering tang, and thick deeply chamfered wheel pommel with circular recess on each side and prominent pyramidal-shaped button
72.5 cm. blade, 93.2 cm. overall
72.5 cm. blade, 93.2 cm. overall
Footnotes
Provenance:
Boissonas Collection
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 25 November 1959, lot 124, illustrated
Literature:
Jean Boissonas, Alte Waffen Au Der Schweiz, Sammlung Charles Boissonas, 1910, p. 19, no. 113, pp. XXVI
Ewart R. Oakeshott, The Archaeology Of Weapons, 1960, p. 309
Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 60, pp. 35, 84 and 87, figs. 7 and 22
The pommel conforms to Oakeshott's Type J.1








