Live Auction 18768The Oliver Hoare Collection
A SHARPENING STEEL
Lot 109

A SHARPENING STEEL

Closed25 October 2019

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GBP 250

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A SHARPENING STEEL
Of rectangular form, the turned handle with square and bulbous sections, with elongated suspension ring, later inscription with maker's name
12 3/8in. (31.5cm.) long

Specialist note

A similar later steel, although of finer execution, is in the Tanavoli Collection (James W. Allan and Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel, The Tanavoli Collection, Oxford, 2000, ill 1.3, p. 330).