3-021-597 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Meyrick Collection at South Kensington: Anglo-Norman spur, 1869. A specimen from '...the collection of ancient arms and armour formed by Sir Samuel Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, which is now to be seen in the Great Exhibition Palace at South Kensington...The Norman spur, with a cruel point like a spear, is such as every knight was accustomed to wear till the reign of Henry III.' From "Illustrated London News", 1869.