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A Rare Roman Gladius2nd-3rd Century A.D.
30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,750 inc. premium
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A Rare Roman Gladius
2nd-3rd Century A.D.
2nd-3rd Century A.D.
In excavated condition, with broad double-edged pattern-welded blade slightly waisted and of shallow hollowed section forming a medial ridge over its entire length to the arrowhead-shaped point, hilt comprising oval guard with upper band, flat tapering tang retaining three oval iron shims, and canopy-shaped pommel
37.2 cm. blade, 53.5 cm. overall
37.2 cm. blade, 53.5 cm. overall
Footnotes
Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns, 28 July 2010, lot 399 (£10,800 including premium); and another formerly in the Axel Guttman Collection, Herman Historica, Munich, 22 April 2009, lot 46 (Euros 11,600 including premium)








