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LOT 1745
Medieval 'Thames' Currier Leather-Working Knife Group with Maker's Marks
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
4 3/4 - 5 3/4 in. (59 grams total, 12-14.5 cm).
Comprising a short blade with spur and short tang, maker's marks 'GB' and 'B' to obverse; similar blade in original wooden handle with maker's mark 'G' to obverse. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984.
Property of an Essex collector.
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LOT 1745
Medieval 'Thames' Currier Leather-Working Knife Group with Maker's Marks
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Medieval Knight's Enamelled Bronze Heraldic Stud with Cross
14th-15th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Heater-shaped plaque with stud to the reverse; inlaid enamel saltire engrailed. 6 grams, 17 mm
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Medieval 'Essex' Lead Spindle Whorl Collection
12th-16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Mixed group including plano-convex, annular and conical types, some with surface ornament. 267 grams total, 23-28 mm
Found various sites in Essex, UK. Property of an Essex collector. -
Medieval Bronze Knight's Holy Sepulchre Badge
Circa 13th-14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Formed as a cross-crosslet, the symbol of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, with punched-point border. 2.29 grams, 28 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector on a medieval site in Wiltshire in the mid 1980s.
The 'Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem' was an order of knighthood under the protection of the Pope, formed around 1099 AD by Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the First Crusade. It was established for the protection of pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land and was recognised by a Papal Bull in about 1113 AD.
