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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.
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Five Various Spearheads
The First 11th/12th Century, Possibly Viking, The Remainder Probably 15th/16th Century Or Earlier

Antique Arms and Armour
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Five Various Spearheads
The First 11th/12th Century, Possibly Viking, The Remainder Probably 15th/16th Century Or Earlier

Of iron and in excavated condition, the first with long tapering blade of flattened diamond section highly unusually pattern-welded over half its length, and tapering to a moulding above the open socket; the second with double-edged leaf-shaped blade with medial ridge along both sides, and integral open socket of tapering circular section; the third of similar form, with plain leaf-shaped blade; and the last almost forming a pair, each with sharply-pointed leaf-shaped blade and integral socket of tapering circular section (5)
The first 53.8 cm. long

Footnotes

Provenance:
Christie's London, The Collection Of Arms and Armour Of The Late Dacre Kendrick Edwards, Esq ..., 25 April 1961, probably part of lot 60

Literature:
The first, David Nicolle, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Volume I: Warfare in Western Christendom, 1996, pp. 82-83 (illustrated)

For another pattern-welded spear-head in the National Museum of Finland see Ian Peirce, Swords Of The Viking Age, 2002, p. 151 (illustrated)

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.