Pair of Rowel Spurs
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These spurs reused the branches and the lower part of the neck of a 17th-century pair. In the late 18th or in the 19th century, they placed buttons in two of the terminals’ holes, bent the neck upward and added the long shaft and the enormous rowel. In this configuration these spurs are highly impractical and unbalanced. They were either made for the stage or to fool a 19th-century collector.
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