An officer's spontoon
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An officer's spontoon

LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

已結束2010年6月8日

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GBP 5,000

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An officer's spontoon
late 18th or early 19th century
The combat head engraved on both sides with the double-headed eagle surmounted by the Imperial crown, mounted on the wooden shaft
94 in. (238.7 cm.) long

專家說明

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries spontoons were part of the full dress of senior officers (except adjutants) on formal occasions in grenadier and musketeer regiments, garrison regiments and battalions, Guards infantry regiments and cadet corps. In 1806 they were repealed for cadet corps officers and in 1807 for all of the other officers previously authorised to carry them.

For a similar spontoon please see:
A. N. Kulinskii, Russian edged weapons 18-20th centuries, part I, St Petersburg, 2001, pp. 276-277, illustration no. 116.