A Rare French Carousel Javelin (Javelot De Carousel), And A Lugged Spear The First 17th Century The first with small leaf-shaped head made in one with a short rod linked by a moulding to a tubular socket, and original painted wooden staff; the second with narrow leaf-shaped blade and tapering socket with integral side-lugs at the base, and later wooden staff 10½in. (26.7cm.) and 21½in. (54.6cm.) heads The first is a type of javelin that was thrown at targets from horseback in the carousel, the latest form of tournament. It bears inventory numbers of the Museum of Artillery (Rotunda), Woolwich, on its staff and belonged to a group there (No.s XII. 138-46), which, according to the 1874 catalogue were brought from Paris after the Battle of Waterloo. Many still remain in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris (e.g. No.s K 759-63). A set used in a carousel of 1685 is in the Tøjhusmuseum, Copenhagen, see L. Rangström (ed.), Ridderlek och Tornerspel , Livrustkammaren, Stockholm, June-December 1992, No. 195 (2)
A Rare French Carousel Javelin (Javelot De Carousel), And A Lugged Spear The First 17th Century The first with small leaf-shaped head made in one with a short rod linked by a moulding to a tubular socket, and original painted wooden staff; the second with narrow leaf-shaped blade and tapering socket with integral side-lugs at the base, and later wooden staff 10½in. (26.7cm.) and 21½in. (54.6cm.) heads The first is a type of javelin that was thrown at targets from horseback in the carousel, the latest form of tournament. It bears inventory numbers of the Museum of Artillery (Rotunda), Woolwich, on its staff and belonged to a group there (No.s XII. 138-46), which, according to the 1874 catalogue were brought from Paris after the Battle of Waterloo. Many still remain in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris (e.g. No.s K 759-63). A set used in a carousel of 1685 is in the Tøjhusmuseum, Copenhagen, see L. Rangström (ed.), Ridderlek och Tornerspel , Livrustkammaren, Stockholm, June-December 1992, No. 195 (2)
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