Significant Early Rune Staff or Perpetual Calendar Stick

Of Stylised Sword Shape with Rope Knot Detail to the Handle
Comprehensively Inscribed with Runic Symbols
Hand Carved and Richly Patinated Birchwood
Scandinavian, c.1700

43.72" long

Similar Examples are held in several international museums including Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and in the world's second largest collection at the Gustavianum Museum, Uppsala Sweden, the gift of Carl Ehrenpreus.

Ref: 11239