7th May, 2014 10:00
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria: The John Woodman Higgins Armoury Collection
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**A STEEL TARGET
**A STEEL TARGET, 19TH CENTURY IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE OF THE MID-16TH CENTURY
of slightly convex circular form, rising slightly at its centre to a six-sided pyramidal spike issuing from a squat peripherally-decorated moulding, formed at its edge with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing round-headed lining-rivets with rosette washers of brass externally and plain washers of iron internally, the latter retaining a quilted leather lining (splits and holed at points), fitted within the border with four pairs of similar rivets for the attachment of leather enarmes (one missing), and decorated around the boss with a series of blackened radiating gadroons, alternately narrow and short with rounded ends and broad and long with pointed ends
60 cm; 23 3/4 in diameter
Provenance
S. Marachat, Paris, 1926
JWHA Inv. No. 50
No Reserve
Sold for £800
**A STEEL TARGET, 19TH CENTURY IN THE WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE OF THE MID-16TH CENTURY
of slightly convex circular form, rising slightly at its centre to a six-sided pyramidal spike issuing from a squat peripherally-decorated moulding, formed at its edge with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border containing round-headed lining-rivets with rosette washers of brass externally and plain washers of iron internally, the latter retaining a quilted leather lining (splits and holed at points), fitted within the border with four pairs of similar rivets for the attachment of leather enarmes (one missing), and decorated around the boss with a series of blackened radiating gadroons, alternately narrow and short with rounded ends and broad and long with pointed ends
60 cm; 23 3/4 in diameter
Provenance
S. Marachat, Paris, 1926
JWHA Inv. No. 50
