‡ A FINE AND RARE HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD, CIRCA 1420-60

‡ A FINE AND RARE HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD, CIRCA 1420-60 in excavated condition, with sharply tapering straight double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section with a sharp point (chips), inlaid in latten with the running wolf of Passau on oner face, iron hilt comprising a pair of quillons of circular section, swelling slightly at the centre to form an écusson and with swollen bud-shaped terminals, strongly formed fishtail pommel, and in characteristic black patinated largely stable condition throughout, 99.7 cm blade; 124.3 cm overall Provenance Christie's, London, 19th July 1978, lot 25 Howard M. Curtis Literature Oakeshott, Ewart, A River-Find of 15th Century Swords, in, Stuber, Karl and Wetter, Hans, Blankwaffen, 1982, pp. 17-32, sword no. 13. Oakeshott, Ewart, Records of the Medieval Sword, Bury St Edmonds, 1991, p. 143, no. 5. Thomas, Clive, Additional Notes on the Swords of Castillon, in, The Park Lane Arms Fair, 2012, p. 59, no. 71.