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Lot 125

A Medieval Short Sword
Late 14th/Early 15th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£2,500 - £3,500

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A Medieval Short Sword
Late 14th/Early 15th Century

In fine excavated condition, with broad tapering blade fullered over most of its length on each side and of flattened diamond section to the point, hilt comprising straight quillons of tapering square section down bent at the tips, flat tapering tang, and heavy faceted kite-shaped pommel
58.5 cm. blade, 74.5 cm. overall

Footnotes

For a sword with related hilt found in the River Ouse at Eley, Cambridgeshire, formerly in the Redfern Collection, and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see Ewart Oakeshott, Records of The Medieval Sword, 1991, pp. 158-159

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