AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BRASS MOUNTED BLUED STEEL RIFLE BAYONET T...

Hammer

£1,900

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF BRASS MOUNTED BLUED STEEL RIFLE BAYONET TABLE LAMPS FRANCO-PRUSSIAN, MID/LATE CENTURY AND LATER Each with cluster of six socket bayonets the scrolled over tips above blades, socket bases with musket balls above lion paw feet, each bearing a serial number, formerly with oil lamp reservoirs, now fitted for electricity bases 56cm high overall Repurposed armaments are unusual decorative items- more commonly found utilising 20th century elements. For comparable examples please see: A set of six French gilt-metal and wrought steel chairs made out of French regulation weapons sold Sotheby's, Important Continental Furniture, Ceramics and Clocks, 2nd December 2008, lot 262 (sold £17,500). A Napoleon III steel twenty-eight light chandelier, circa 1870, made from bayonet handles and blades from the Franco/Prussian war sold Christie's, Out of The Ordinary, 3rd September 2014, lot 144 (sold £7,500).