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LOT 2046
Western Asiatic Bronze Decorated Spear Butt
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
9 1/4 in. (191 grams, 23.5 cm).
Comprising a flared mouth and band of annulets beneath, stepped shoulder developing to pentagonal-section spike with raised spur to each face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2046
Western Asiatic Bronze Decorated Spear Butt
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Medieval Iron Single-Edged Knife
Circa 14th-15th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Featuring a slender triangular-section blade and a flat-section tang with rivets still in situ. 208 grams, 35.6 cm
Acquired 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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Luristan Bronze Comb-Backed Axehead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £275
With ribbed socket terminating in a butt formed of four cones, the blade expanding from the socket in a swept arc with reinforcing rim to upper and lower edges. 368 grams, 21.5 cm
Ex Abelita collection, 1980s-2010. -
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Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Comprising leaf-shaped and triangular tanged arrowheads, most with a raised midrib. 238 grams total, 8.1-18.7 cm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
All these bronze typologies of arrowheads were cast in moulds. Similar specimens have been found in Northwest and West Iran, Azerbaijan, Luristan and Amlash. Most of these blades are bipartite, but the definition of the bipartite type is not absolute, as it brings together weapons of very different and unrelated designs. In fact, some weapons do not have a sufficiently characteristic shape to be interpreted as a javelin or long arrowhead.
