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Lot 224*

Two Long-Toed Solerets In German Late 15th Century Style
19th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Long-Toed Solerets In German Late 15th Century Style
19th Century

Of steel and forming a pair, each of nine overlapping lames articulated on dome-headed rivets and including pointed tapering toes, and shaped around the top and back of each foot, the latter with hinge and pin catch and riveted extension above (some rust patination and one with holes) (2)
64 cm.

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Provenance
The Stanley Knight Collection, Meaford, Ontario, Canada

For a very similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor..., 1934, pp. 6-7, fig.11

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