Oakeshott Type XV Medieval Sword w/ Downturned Quillons

Late 14th/Early 15th Century, Possibly French Or English. In excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, hilt comprising slightly downcurved flat tapering quillons with downbent bluntly-pointed tips, flat tapering tang, and chamfered wheel pommel encircled by a medial groove

80 cm. blade, 98 cm. overall

Sold for £4,750 (AU$ 8,119) inc. premium

Provenance: Found in the River Seine by Castle Montreux in 1906

Acquired from Robert-Jean Charles, Paris, 1937

Literature: Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Middelalderens tveæggede Sværd, 1954, vol. II, pp. 25 and 95, pl. 29a

Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 59, pp. 35, 84 and 85, figs. 7 and 21

For another example formerly in the collection of Sir Edward Barry and now in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, see Ewart Oakeshott, Records Of The Medieval Sword, 1991, p. 140, xva.1

Related examples are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Wallace Collection

For more information on Oakeshott's Type XV swords see this extract from his Records of the Medieval Sword: www.sword-site.com/thread/166/oakeshott-type-records-medieval-sword

Source: www.bonhams.com/auctions/19796/lot/70/