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LOT 1439
Post Medieval Bronze Decorated Scabbard Section
17TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (39 grams, 13 cm).
Fragment of scabbard for a narrow two-edged sword; with three transverse bands of impressed crosses, lozenges and rosettes; edges butted to reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
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Luristan Bronze Short Sword
2nd-1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £442
With leaf-shaped two-edged blade, crescent guard; restored hilt with columnar grip and stone pommel. 521 grams, 58 cm
From a North West London collection; previously acquired in the 1980s. -
Greek Bronze Arrowhead Group
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Each socketted with a side lug and raised midrib. 20.4 grams total, 43-48 mm
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s. -
Luristan Bronze Spearhead Group
13th-11th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising a tanged spearhead with heavily ridged and tapered blade, short collared shaft and square-section tapered tang bent at the tip; a spearhead with foliate narrow blade, short tang with fastening hole. 300 grams total, 26.2-28.7 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Both types of spearheads were found in Amlash and Marlik, and are connected with the types 1 and 2 of the Khorasani classification. The type 1 is characterised by a bent tang and was the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with a straight square-section tang, usually thickened at the base with a button tang.
