


Lot 56
A Rare Italian BrandestocMid-17th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,040 inc. premium
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A Rare Italian Brandestoc
Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
Of iron, with waisted octagonal hammer-head engraved with a lion rampant on the flat face, and balanced by a beak-shaped fluke of diamond section incised with foliage, a rounded mount between incised with bands of foliage en suite (lid missing), a waved double-edged blade emerging between a pair of sprung spikes (one an old replacement) each of slender triangular section, and seamed tubular haft (probably shortened) reinforced at the bottom with an iron tube (some old rust patination overall)
51 cm. extended
51 cm. extended
Footnotes
For a related example see Lionello G. Boccia and Eduardo T. Colelho, Armi Bianchi Italiane, 1975, p. 401, nos. 596-600