Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Oakeshott type XIIIa sold at christies 1984.

Lee · 21st July 2016, 01:52 PM

Well, clearly the same sword. I did not see it pictured in the Christie's London 1984 catalogs upon quick perusal. Sword in Hand was a nicely cleaned up version of a series of articles in The Gun Report that represented an updating of material from The Archaeology of Weapons. Looking at the original magazine the caption for what becomes fig. 83 is "A typical sword of Type XIIIA"; the next illustration of another sword gives the Burrell collection attribution in both versions (magazine and book). The same sword shows up again in Records (XIIIa 12) as "Collection: Private".

21st July 2016, 01:52 PM	#2
Lee EAAF Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Upstate New York, USA Posts: 894	The mystery continues Well, clearly the same sword. I did not see it pictured in the Christie's London 1984 catalogs upon quick perusal. Sword in Hand was a nicely cleaned up version of a series of articles in The Gun Report that represented an updating of material from The Archaeology of Weapons. Looking at the original magazine the caption for what becomes fig. 83 is "A typical sword of Type XIIIA"; the next illustration of another sword gives the Burrell collection attribution in both versions (magazine and book). The same sword shows up again in Records (XIIIa 12) as "Collection: Private".