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(a) Gilded bronze, late XIVth century. Found in London. London Museum

(b) Gilded iron, late XIVth century. Found in London. London Museum

(c) Bronze, early XVth century. Found near Florence. Collection: Author

bronze, the neck and heel straps enriched with a chequered design in black and white champlevé enamel, to the heraldic significance of which we have referred to in a note on page 206. In that small elongation of the heel strap which appears immediately above the necks, a customary feature in the late XIVth century form of spurs, they have a trefoil architectural design delicately engraved. The pair—which are in splendid, almost pristine, condition—became parted in the middle of the XIXth century. One spur, after sundry peregrinations, became, for a few hundred francs, the property of Mr. Riggs, having been sold with one portion of a property at a country sale