Lot 83*
A German Combined Wheel-Lock Spanner And Turnscrew Early 17th Century
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £956.25 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA German Combined Wheel-Lock Spanner And Turnscrew
Early 17th Century
Early 17th Century
Of iron, with baluster stem of swelling octagonal section and fitted centrally with a diagonally-fluted rotating ring carrying a swivelling ring for suspension, and flattened above the turnscrew into a circle filled with gothic tracery, the detachable head of octagonal section with two apertures for spindles
17.1 cm.
17.1 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Late Howard L. Blackmore, FSA, FGA (1917-1999), formerly Deputy Master of the Royal Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour, 12 July 2000, lot 340
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 25 July 2012, lot 161
Literature
H.L. Blackmore, Firearms, 1964, p.44
Idem, Guns and Rifles of the World, 1965, pl. 828, p. 103
Frederick Wilkinson, Small Arms, 1965, pl. 33