French Boar Hunting Spear (~1610)
<span style="color:#323232;">>The spear has a large, leaf-shaped blade with pronounced medial ridge and a short hexagonal socket pierced to receive the bolt of a toggle. The bolt ends in a loop from which the toggle is hinged.
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<span style="color:#323232;">>The toggle, socket and the lower part of the blade are decorated with appliqué patterns of trophies of arms, laurel branches, strapwork arabesques and starts in silver, copper and gold against a blackened ground.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">>The shaft is of hexagonal section at for its top quarter and of circular section for the rest of its length. It has been replaced.
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