Oakeshott Type XI Sword w/ Octahedral Pommel

A Medieval Sword Of Oakeshott Type Xa [Editor's note: Listed by Bonhams as a Type Xa, I would personally be inclined to categorize this sword as Type XI] With Unusual Pommel Of Octahedron Form

12th/13th Century

In excavated condition, with broad double-edged blade with narrow central fuller over most of its length on each side to the rounded point, hilt comprising straight quillons of slight octagonal section swelling at the tang, and large pommel drawn-out to blunt points

85.5 cm. blade, 103.3 cm. overall

Provenance
Sotheby's Olympia, Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 10 July 2002, lot 60

The quillons conform to Oakeshott's Style 3

A sword with a similar blade and pommel is in the Army Museum, Riga, Latvia

For other examples with pommels of related form see Hugo Schneider and Karl Stüber, Waffen in Schweizerischen Landesmuseum, Griffwaffen I , 1980, cat. no. 21; and Christie's London, The Collection of Arms and Armour of The Late Dacre Kendrick Edwards, Eqr..., 25 April 1961, lot 145

Sold for £5,000

ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR INCLUDING THE S. JAMES GOODING COLLECTION

For more information on Type XI Swords see this extract of Ewart Oakeshott's Records of the Medieval Sword: sword-site.com/thread/126/oakeshott-type-records-medieval-sword

Source: www.bonhams.com/auctions/22749/lot/106/