A VERY RARE BUCKLER

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A VERY RARE BUCKLER

EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ITALIAN

Of wood covered with parchment (wormed and damaged) mounted with wrought iron strips, in the form of a miniature rectangular pavise with a rounded central gutter carrying a long flat iron hook on the front, and saltire-shaped internal frame supporting a central fluted bone handle
16in. (40.6cm.)

Lot Essay

Similar bucklers are shown in Burgkmair's Triumph of Maximilian, and the Opera Nova (1536) of the Italian fencing master Achille Marozzo. Iron examples are in the Metropolitan Museum and the Wallace Collection. See Laking, vol. II, pp. 246-7; Stone's Glossary, fig. 713; Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour, Nos. A 318 and 319

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