A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition but undamaged, with double-edged sharply tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened diamond and inlaid in latten on each face with a running wolf(?) mark, long straight quillons of square section, and thick oval pommel with chamfered edges, the surface covered throughout with a hard black patina under accretions of river-mud, late 14th Century | Christie's

Lot 37

A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition but undamaged, with double-edged sharply tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened diamond and inlaid in latten on each face with a running wolf(?) mark, long straight quillons of square section, and thick oval pommel with chamfered edges, the surface covered throughout with a hard black patina under accretions of river-mud, late 14th Century

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A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition but undamaged, with double-edged sharply tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened diamond and inlaid in latten on each face with a running wolf(?) mark, long straight quillons of square section, and thick oval pommel with chamfered edges, the surface covered throughout with a hard black patina under accretions of river-mud, late 14th Century
33½in. blade

Lot Essay

This sword belongs to Oakeshott's group XVII with a type HI pommel. See R.E. Oakeshott,The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, London, 1964, pp.65-7, 102

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