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Lot 239

A Pair Of Crane-Neck Rowel Spurs
Early 17th Century, English Or German

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Crane-Neck Rowel Spurs
Early 17th Century, English Or German

Of steel, each with slender tapering downcurved heel-band of triangular section deeply chiselled with cusping and with figure-eight terminals, the latter retaining their original hooks and buckles, short necks each with three slender steps, downbent rowel box chiselled with scrolls on both sides, and five-pointed rowels each with a short spike between (some minor pitting) (2)
13 cm.

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Provenance
Sotheby & Co., London, Arms And Armour..., 18 December 1958, lot 142 (£10 to D. Kay)

For a related pair of spurs see Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 13 November 1985, lot 56

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