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Spur

Unknown Artist

Spur, of blackened steel encrusted with conventional foliage and spots of chased silver, which also shows traces of fire-gilding on the whole; sides of oval section, the neck with right-angled bend; star-shaped rowel of five points; two heart shaped lockets and buckles of interlacing strapwork with tiny silver spots.

Comparable spurs were in the Forrer collection (Zschille and Forrer, 1899, pl. XIV, no. 6), and in the Kuppelmayr collection (1895 cat., no. 139, pl. XXL). A pair are in the collection of Glasgow Museums (Joubert, Scott Collection catalogue, I, no. 91, illus.).

c. 1630

Steel, silver and gold, encrusted, chased, blackened, chased and gilded

A379

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