Lot 139
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A FINE GILT-BRONZE POMMEL, probably from a walking staff, hollow, formed in two halves, and cast and chased as a bearded head wearing a helmet of fantastic shape and forming a further two heads at the back, second half of the 16th Century, probably Augsburg

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A FINE GILT-BRONZE POMMEL, probably from a walking staff, hollow, formed in two halves, and cast and chased as a bearded head wearing a helmet of fantastic shape and forming a further two heads at the back, second half of the 16th Century, probably Augsburg
3in.
Provenance
F.H. Cripps-Day
Sir James Mann
Literature
Sir James Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour, vol. II, p. 589; A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, p. 253

Lot Essay

Cf. the pommel on the combined walking-staff, sword, and wheel-lock pistol in the Wallace Collection, No. A1240, and another pommel formerly in the von Schwerzenbach Collection, and now in the Voralberg Museum

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