LOT 2536 Saxon Broken-Backed Knife Group
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8th-10th century AD. A group of two iron knives of 'broken-back' type; the smaller single-edged, whittle-tang type with curved forward edge; the larger similar with rectangular iron baluster. See West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, for discussion. 253 grams total, 19.5-37.5cm (7 3/4 - 14 3/4"). From an important private family collection of arms and armour; acquired on the European art market in the 1980s, and thence by descent. [2]
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