An Agate Handled Mounted Hunting Hanger

Object Description

An Agate Handled Mounted Hunting Hanger
With an engraved hunting scene to the blade
Steel, agate
England
Late 17th Century

Size: 55cm long – 21½ ins long

Object History

Provenance:
Ex Private collection

Object Literature

cf:
For two similar hunting hangers see Finch and Co, catalogue number 25, winter 2015, item number 37 a. and b.

Coming from the Dutch word ‘Hangher’ hangers were a type of short sword hung from a belt. No other European hunting blade has experienced such a comprehensive cultural and artistic development. Until the end of the Middle Ages weapons used on the battlefield and those used for hunting were very similar, but with the spread of firearms in the Renaissance weapons of war rapidly became very different.

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