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LOT 1379
Viking Age Iron Bearded Axe-Hammer
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
5 7/8 in. (310 grams, 15 cm).
With a curved blade and swept chin, narrow neck, flanged socket and hammer extension to the rear with domed head. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx North American collection, 1970s-1990s.
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Norman Period Iron Arrowhead
11th-12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Tapering tang with collar and scooped edges to the blade. 8.5 grams, 10.4 cm
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Bactrian Bronze Axehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
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. -
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Luristan Bronze Short Sword
13th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With lentoid-section blade, tongue-shaped in plan with integral tapering hilt with flared finial, lateral flanges to accept a panel of bone to each face forming the grip, mounting pegs at neck. 279 grams, 35.7 cm
Ex British private collection, Buckinghamshire, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.BA22; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
