8th Sep, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 186
 

186

A 19th Century New Guinea Dark Stained Wood Dance Paddle, the elongated leaf shape blade carved with panels of chequering and fluting, the cylindrical haft with similarly carved pierced butt - broken, 138cm; a Shona Axe, Zimbabwe, the slender crescent shape steel blade with flat tang inserted into the swollen head of the tapering cylindrical haft, 82cm (2) Provenance:- The Martin Millmore Collection
Not Sold

 

. 1 - Chips to the tip of the head, the butt is broken with pieces missing. 2 - Fine cracks to blade and bruising to the swollen head.

 


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