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LOT 2001
Luristan Bronze Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
111 /8 in. (200 grams, 28.3 cm).
Slender and leaf-shaped with lozenge-sectioned midrib, square-section tang with right-angled bend and square button finial.
ProvenanceEx Abelita collection, 1980s-2010.
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LOT 2001
Luristan Bronze Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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Bactrian Bronze Axehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £138
With curved flaring cutting edge, characteristic curving shape and narrow socket, blade end squaring off, shaft hole pierced on both sides. 227 grams, 10.6 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
These collared axes have the specific feature of being equipped with variously shaped rear extensions. The provenance of this typology is clearer than others: these axes came from Margiana and southern Bactria. Gonur Depe and Susa yielded a rather atypical and probably imported example. P. Amiet suggests that they were an adoption of Elamite material, from conceptual and institutional models. They would have developed from the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. -
Eastern Balkans Iron T-Shaped Socketted Axehead
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
An iron axehead with a T-shaped blade, curved edge, lateral flanges to the socket, and a spiked head to the rear. 566 grams, 17 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. -
Sudanese Kaskara Sword with Scabbard
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a two-edged straight-sided blade with shallow point, square-section crossguard with two vertical clips to grip the scabbard, columnar leather-bound grip and disc pommel; the wooden scabbard covered with leather decorated with heavily tooled bands, crocodile-skin panels to the chape and attachment collars, flared leaf-shaped lower body; broad tooled leather belt with securing laces. 1.25 kg, 10.5.5 cm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
