A SAXON HORSEMAN'S HAMMER, entirely of iron, with small turned hammer head balanced by a long beak-shaped fluke of stiff diamond section and with spherical finial, slender haft of circular section with thicker wire-bound grip between a small circular hand-guard and cottage-loaf shaped pommel, and short flat belt hook, early 17th Century | Christie's

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A SAXON HORSEMAN'S HAMMER, entirely of iron, with small turned hammer head balanced by a long beak-shaped fluke of stiff diamond section and with spherical finial, slender haft of circular section with thicker wire-bound grip between a small circular hand-guard and cottage-loaf shaped pommel, and short flat belt hook, early 17th Century

细节

A SAXON HORSEMAN'S HAMMER, entirely of iron, with small turned hammer head balanced by a long beak-shaped fluke of stiff diamond section and with spherical finial, slender haft of circular section with thicker wire-bound grip between a small circular hand-guard and cottage-loaf shaped pommel, and short flat belt hook, early 17th Century
21½in.

来源

Dr. B. Giesker of Zürich
Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein

拍品专文

For a similar hammer from the Saxon Royal Collections see Sotheby & Co., 23 March, 1970, lot 24