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Fig. 972. Pair of gilded bronze rowel spurs
Engraved with the word Esperance in a form of garter. Late XIVth century. Found in the moat of the Château du Bouchat near St. Dourçain-sur-Sioule (Allier) Collection: Author
of the Orville example, finally obtaining it for as many thousand francs as its fellow fetched hundreds (Fig. 971); while, as we have said, the Riggs spur is now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (Fig. 971A). A pair of spurs remarkable for their splendid condition and for their completeness, for they still retain their original cloth of gold straps, were some years ago discovered in the dry moat of the Chateau du Bouchât, near St. Dourçain-sur-Sioule (Allier). They are of bronze gilt and have engraved upon them a form of Garter inscribed with the word Esperance, which
