Long épieu de guerre, spiedo da guerra, Italie... - Lot 1 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Long épieu de guerre, spiedo da guerra, Italie... - Lot 1 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Long épieu de guerre, spiedo da guerra, Italie début XVIe siècle. An Italian military spear, spiedo da guerra, early 16th century. With very long slender tapering head, double-edged and formed with a full length medial ridge on both sides, cut with small near-annular decorations at the base, and with tubular socket extending to a pair of short straps, on an octagonal wooden haft, 16th or 17th century, profusely studded with patterns of domed brass nails and retaining the original iron shoe. L. head: 77 cm - L. overall: 233.5 cm. Similar long spears were carried by the Guard of the Emperor Charles V; an example is preserved in the Real Armeria, Madrid (RA 162). See BOCCIA, Lionello G. & COELHO, Eduardo T., Armi Bianche Italiane, Milan 1975, No. 309.
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