EARLY 15TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ENGLISH

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A Copper-Alloy Rowel Spur
Early 15th Century, probably English
With flat downcurved heel-band with low bluntly-pointed crest with everted tip, and long straight slightly tapering neck and large star-shaped rowel of six points, the main surfaces engraved throughout with a design of running foliage against a cross-hatched ground, and retaining traces of gilding
67/8in. (17.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

The decoration can be compared to that on a contemporary gilt copper- alloy spur, said to have been found on the site of the Battle of Towton (1461), in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London. See C. de Lacy Lacy, The History of the Spur, n.d. (circa 1905), plate 20; London Museum, Medieval Catalogue, 1940, p. 112, fig. 36, no. 1

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