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Lot 95

A Rare Italian Brandestoc
Mid-17th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Italian Brandestoc
Mid-17th Century

Of iron, the head with four-pronged hammer-head with a spherical feature formed of six loops behind, and balanced by a beak-shaped fluke en suite (some hoops bent), a tapering blade of hollow diamond section emerging between and secured in position by a sprung locking catch, and seamed tubular haft (shortened) on a wooden staff of circular section (surface rust patination and pitting overall)
174 cm. extended

Footnotes

For another example see Lionello G. Boccia and Eduardo T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, p. 402, nos. 603/604

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