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LOT 1965
French Artillery Infantry Short Sword
CIRCA 1830-1848 A.D.
25 in. (1.11 kg, 63.7 cm).
Model 1831 double-edged short sword with slightly waisted lentoid-section blade, solid bronze hilt with ribbed grip, roundel finials to the crossguard, stamped '717' to one face and 'X' to underside; blade with asterisk proofing stamp, copperplate legend 'Shre...'; reverse with 'Châtellerault,1832'; edges notched. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
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LOT 1965
French Artillery Infantry Short Sword
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Pair of Roman Lamellar Greaves of a Heavily Armoured Mounted Cataphractarius Soldier
2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £10,000
A complete pair of lamellar greaves, anatomically formed protection featuring curved, overlapping metal plates (lames), the knee area having large plates and cut-outs at the sides to enable better movement; the left greave consists of nineteen overlapping U-shaped metal strips, whilst the right consists of twenty, each with two rivets at each end of every strip. 1.8 kg total, 45-50.5 cm
Acquired on the Munich art market in the 1990s. From a South German private collection. German export licence no.15771. Accompanied by an academic report by Prof. Dr Phil. Peter Rothenhöfer and Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13540-263658.
A close example in construction technique and material is an arm guard (manica) from Newstead (Trimontium). The heavy armoured cavalrymen (cataphractarii) were often protected entirely on arms and legs, as shown by the Dura Europos graffito and echoed in the words of Nazianzius describing the clibanarii of Maxentius (Pan., XXII,5ff.): 'In the army they are called clibanarii, the men are covered in the upper part, an armour (lorica) which extends down to the horses’chest (pectora equorum) and hang to their forelegs protects them from the injury of a wound without impending their gait…' Nazanzius speaks of an ostentatio armorum (display of armour) and of operti ferro exercitus (army covered with iron). A long splint-armour gauntlet with metal staves had already begun to appear as early as the third century in the Roman army. It had an Iranian origin and is typical of Eurasian horse people. -
Eastern Balkans Period Socketted Spear
Circa 14th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Socketed spearhead with a spheroconic transition; the long, square-sectioned point separated from the socket by a small sphere. 245 grams, 31 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1960s. From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Socketted Spearhead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £80
Comprising a leaf-shaped blade with a midrib, a long tapering socket with a flared mouth. 154 grams, 25.5 cm
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
