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LOT 0282
Bronze Age British Copper-Alloy Rivetted Dagger
CIRCA 13TH CENTURY B.C.
5 7/8 in. (87 grams, 15 cm).
A rapier or dirk blade; the blade roughly leaf-shaped with raised midrib to both faces, flat butt with two rivet holes, one retaining a rivet.
ProvenanceFrom an old South Coast, UK, collection.
Ex Alan Cherry, Bournemouth, UK.
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Bronze Age European Spearhead
Late 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Leaf-shaped, with bevelled edges and lozenge-sectioned mid-rib, socket pierced twice. 211 grams, 37.4 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
The shape of the blade resembles a willow leaf with its widest part situated in the middle of its length. The origin of this shape is still not very clear. It was probably invented somewhere in Anatolia or the Near East. In the Aegean it appears for the first time in LH II A, before spreading around Western Europe. -
Bronze Age Rapier or Short Sword Blade
11th-9th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
With ogival sides, a raised mid-rib and lozenge-shaped shoulders, remains of the tang with a hole for the insertion of the fastening rivet. 223 grams, 31.5 cm
Acquired in the late 19th century. Ex private collection, Liverpool, UK. Helios Gallery Antiquities, Wiltshire, UK. Private collection, Preston, UK. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Helios Gallery no.H3163r.
The top of the sword is missing, and the shape of the blade resembles that of swords of the late European Bronze Age, but the particular shape of the central groove of the blade, which forms a three-quarter median rib before tapering towards the point, could lead one to believe that the sword was of the antennal type with median rib, like the sword from Central Italy preserved in the Calvet Museum, Avignon. -
Bronze Age Central European Axehead
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
With an elliptical socket and wedge-shaped cheeks. 894 grams, 17.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
