LOT 0480 Viking Sword with Silver Inlaid Hilt
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10th century AD. An iron double-edged sword of Petersen's Type R with shallow fullers, an oval lower guard inlaid with copper and silver Ringerike motifs, short grip and narrow upper guard, the upper guard with with similar inlays, the lobed pommel with bands of braided silver wire in between, the central lobe with Mediterranean style inlaid tree. See Petersen, J., De Norske Vikingsverd, Oslo, 1919; Peirce, I., Swords of the Viking Age, Suffolk, 2002.1.3 kg, 87cm (34 1/4"). Property of an East Anglian collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s; accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr. Raffaele D’Amato.
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