old european lance

[fernando]

Thank you Bill.
I didn't coment on the shaft, as i did some nasty business there. It is actually a section of some thirty inches, the rest possibly broken or cut off, due to the rot. The remaining part it came with, although profusely mined by the wood worm, was only colapsed in the part inside the socket, due to contact with the fixing nails corrosion. I dismounted the nails and filed the shaft in order to remount it firmly into the socket. But i didn't control the extension of the filing area and unecessarily rubbed off a couple inches of the wood ancient colour. The second mistake was that, in order to kill the wood worms ( probably already death, but still pooring a lot of saw dust ) i used a classic colourless product, but the simple wetting of the wood made it loose a lot of its great ancient patina. Silly me.
I hope someone will come up with an idea on the age or period of this lance, given the technique used for its making.
Thanks