Tournament Lance with Coronel Tip

Culture German , perhaps Dresden

Date1500s or 1700s

Mediumpainted wood with steel

Dimensions342 × 4.8 × 5.7 × 8.3 cm (134 5/8 × 1 7/8 × 2 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.), 9 lb, 9 oz (weight)

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection

Terms

Object number2014.269

DescriptionShaft of wood, possibly ash, cut along the grain. It is of rough, circular section, with only a hint of a taper forward and to the butt end which is rounded. At some point in the object's history, the front end was broken and repaired with a new section, to which was added a three-pronged, coronel tip also modern. The entire shaft is painted dark red, and over this from the coronel to 79 cm forward of the butt end is a black-painted, wide spiralled band (cf. to 2014.267). The rear terminal of this is presumably where a vamplate was fitted. There is no grip, and no obvious signs of a grapper or mounts.
ProvenanceNot known, but possibly from the Electoral armory at Dresden (see HAM# 900). Purchased by John W. Higgins on September 28, 1929 from estate of Bashford Dean (Riverdale, NY), his no. 1. Given to the Museum on December 15, 1931. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014

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