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LOT 1559

Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

MEDIEVAL KNIGHT'S BRONZE 'BOROUGHBRIDGE ROLL' HERALDIC HORSE HARNESS PENDANT
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (7.48 grams, 36 mm).

Heater-shaped with suspension loop; low-relief armorial design blazoned 'quarterly per fess indented' attributed to the Sandford family of Gloucestershire. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.

FOOTNOTES:
The attribution of these arms appears in the Boroughbridge roll of arms, an armorial of knights in the host collected for the siege of Berwick in September 1319.

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