Lot 1075

Pre-Viking HÃ¶gom-Selmeston Scabbard Mount

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Medieval Gilt Morning Star Scabbard Mount: 14th-16th century AD. A gilt-bronze mount with pyramidal centre, triangular lateral extensions and lobe finials; four spikes to the reverse. 14 grams, 38mm (1 1/2") From an important London, Mayfair,

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Civil War Infantry Officer Sword Ames, M1850: Pre or early Civil War US Model 1850 Infantry Officer sword and scabbard as manufactured by Ames Manufacturing, Chicopee, Massachusetts, and so marked on both blade and upper scabbard mount. Standard

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CIVIL WAR MODEL 1850 STAFF & FIELD OFFICER PRESENTATION SWORD: the scabbard mounts engraved 'Presented to First Lieut. F. A. McGuigan by his Friends March 23rd 1864', the verso engraved 'US', pierced floral and 'US' decorated hilt with double twisted gilded brass

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Pre-Viking HÃ¶gom-Selmeston Scabbard Mount

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6th century AD. A silver-gilt openwork reinforcing mount for the mouth of a sword's scabbard, of Menghin's Typ HÃ¶gom-Selmeston with running guilloche and ribbed lateral flanges curving to each end; to the lower edge, two addorsed Style I profile heads with curved three-band hair, keyhole panels and arms extending to the rear to grasp a three-band arc extending from a central omega-shaped element. See Menghin, W. Das Schwert im FrÃ¼hen Mittelalter, Stuttgart, 1983, p.96. Accompanied by an Art Loss Register certificate. 30 grams, 88mm (3 1/2"). Property of a London collector; acquired in the 1960s. Accompanied by a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Scabbard plaques of this form are found mainly in southern England and the Baltic rim, with outliers in Central Europe.