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LOT 2024
Viking Age Iron Long-Bladed Socketted Axehead
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (397 grams, 18.9 cm).
Featuring a rounded cutting edge and a long neck, a round socket with four lateral extensions. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the 1960s.
From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s.
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LOT 2024
Viking Age Iron Long-Bladed Socketted Axehead
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Greek Bronze Socketted Arrowhead Group
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
A mixed group of arrowheads of socketted type, some with triangular cross-sections. 38 grams total, 32-40 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Bactrian Bronze Axehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £138
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. -
Large Greek Socketted Arrowhead
Circa 6th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in section with radiating cutting edges and a slender point, cylindrical socket; mounted in a display frame. 229 grams total, case: 13.1 x 13.1 cm; arrow: 10.5cm
Acquired in the UK in the 1990s. From the private collection of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
