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AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCK

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,000.00 USD
AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCK
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
A spectacular example of chiseled and pierced steel in Mannerist style, with profiled and engraved mainspring, the cock and pan with finely wrought panels depicting beings, perhaps demons, amongst foliage. The frizzen and jaw screw feature finials formed as disks pierced with flowering vines, while the proximal end of the lockplate bears a grotesque mask, the terminal formed as an elaborate trefoil. Mid-17th century.Areas of pitting, partial loss to upper jaw finial.Overall length 14.6 cm. Condition III