A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition, the broad double-edged blade (lacking several inches at the point) with wide fuller on each face of the forte with traces of latten-inlaid marks, straight quillons of square section widening towards the tips, the long tang struck on one face with a mark, and slightly oval disc pommel with chamfered edges, late 13th/early 14th Century | Christie's

拍品 78

A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition, the broad double-edged blade (lacking several inches at the point) with wide fuller on each face of the forte with traces of latten-inlaid marks, straight quillons of square section widening towards the tips, the long tang struck on one face with a mark, and slightly oval disc pommel with chamfered edges, late 13th/early 14th Century

細節

A MEDIEVAL SWORD, in excavated condition, the broad double-edged blade (lacking several inches at the point) with wide fuller on each face of the forte with traces of latten-inlaid marks, straight quillons of square section widening towards the tips, the long tang struck on one face with a mark, and slightly oval disc pommel with chamfered edges, late 13th/early 14th Century
27¾in. blade

拍品專文

For a discussion of similar swords see R. E. Oakeshott: 'A War Sword of the XIVth Century in the Guildhall Museum', J.A.A.S, I, pp. 141-52; The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, pp.42-7