Lot 132
A Pair Of Spanish Or Mexican Rowel SpursEarly 18th Century Or Later
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £535.50 inc. premium
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A Pair Of Spanish Or Mexican Rowel Spurs
Early 18th Century Or Later
Early 18th Century Or Later
Of iron, each with heel-band rounded on the outside and chiselled with spiral bands and fluting variously plain, notched and inlaid with chased brass (some losses), squared terminals pierced and chiselled with foliage on the outside, the latter retaining original mounts for leathers, downbent rowel-boxes chiselled en suite, and multi-pointed rowels each retained by a ring-headed cross-pin (2)
14 cm.
14 cm.
Footnotes
For a related spur see Stephen V. Grancsay, A Loan Exhibition Of Equestrian Equipment From The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 4 May to July 3, 1955, no. 117 (illustrated)
