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LOT 2039
Mahdi Arm Dagger with Sheath
SUDAN, LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
9 in. (172 grams, 23 cm).
Comprising a triangular two-edged blade with incised linear detailing, carved wooden hilt with carved ribbing to the angles, integral crossguards, domed button finial; leather sheath with crocodile-skin panels, twisted leather thong forming a thick suspension loop, braided leather knop forming a chape. [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 2039
Mahdi Arm Dagger with Sheath
Estimate £70 - 90€81 - 104 (for guidance only)$95 - 122 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Medieval Warrior's Iron Chain Mail Armour Shirt
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Opening Bid: £750
A butted short-sleeved chainmail shirt made of thick oval rings assembled in the usual system of one-to-four; in an excellent state of preservation, with over 95% of the rings intact, very few broken or corroded, with no later additions. 9.93 kg, 87 x 56 cm
Acquired on the German art market before 2000. Private collection, South Germany. Accompanied by an academic report by 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.13066-249665.
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Western Asiatic Mounted Bronze Arrowhead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Including barbed-and-tanged, flat lozengiform, leaf-shaped and other types. 309 grams total, 5.3-13.1 cm
Ex Abelita collection, 1980s-2010. -
Maximilian Articulated Steel Plate Armour Tassets
Germany, circa early 16th century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Comprising: a curved panel with a rolled rim, horizontal carinated bands and median bowed band with diagonal slash detailing, fluted lower edge with holes for articulating rivets; group of three plates with vertical fluting, with sliding rivets providing articulation; with matching '1.306' reference numbers. 424 grams total, 22.3-24.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. From a gentleman's collection from East Sussex, UK.
The matched reference numbers could indicate that the pieces came from the same harness. One piece appears to be a piece of a tasset – a thigh defence. The embossed band is imitating the fashionable ‘puffed and slashed’ textile garments seen on 16th-century armour. Sixteenth-century armour often imitated textile fashions in their form and decorative elements. The second piece may be a tasset. The incised lines for the fluting on the exterior surface appear to be of more mechanical manufacture, as do the slot for the sliding rivet and the empty rivet hole on one side.
