EARLY 16TH CENTURY
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An Italian Bill (Roncone)
Early 16th Century
With flat head of characteristic form, bifurcated at the top into a slender straight spike and a hook, slender triangular fluke and two slender upturned pointed lugs at the base, incised on each face with a circular device and an engrailed border with fleurs-de-lys, and struck twice with a maker's mark, the flat tapering socket with separate brass moulding at top and bottom, and later wooden staff
30¾in. (78cm.) head
For a closely similar bill struck with the same maker's mark see No. A929 in the Wallace Collection
Cf. also von Kienbusch Collection, No. 519
Early 16th Century
With flat head of characteristic form, bifurcated at the top into a slender straight spike and a hook, slender triangular fluke and two slender upturned pointed lugs at the base, incised on each face with a circular device and an engrailed border with fleurs-de-lys, and struck twice with a maker's mark, the flat tapering socket with separate brass moulding at top and bottom, and later wooden staff
30¾in. (78cm.) head
For a closely similar bill struck with the same maker's mark see No. A929 in the Wallace Collection
Cf. also von Kienbusch Collection, No. 519