Peter Finer (View more items from this dealer)

Antique Arms, Armour and Related Objects

8-39 Duke Street
St. James's
London SW1Y 6DF
United Kingdom

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PRICE BRACKET: £5,000 - £10,000

With central spike, transverse lug, the neck enclosed at both ends with a pair of openwork collars each formed as a series of raised bands chiselled with human masks in low relief. With tubular socket extending to form iron straps. Large slender crescent shaped blade pierced and chiselled with scrolling marine monsters, the rear fluke pierced and chiselled en-suite and drawn out to a reinforced point on octagonal wood haft.