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A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN
- THE FIRST, THE HEAD 16TH CENTURY, THE SECOND, THE HEAD 14TH CENTURY

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A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN
THE FIRST, THE HEAD 16TH CENTURY, THE SECOND, THE HEAD 14TH CENTURY
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • £1,750
  • ($3,504)
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    £600 - £900
  • ($1,201 - $1,802)

Sale Information

Sale 7468
Antique Arms and Armour Including Property sold by The Art Institute of Chicago, From The George F. Harding Collection of Arms and Armour, and The Property of Various Owners
20 September 2007
London, King Street





Lot Description

A FIGHTING AXE, CENTRAL OR EAST EUROPEAN; AND ANOTHER, PERHAPS SCANDINAVIAN
The first, the head 16th Century, the second, the head 14th Century
The first with narrow fluted head formed as a near parallelogram, with straight cutting edge drawn down to a very narrow basal point, and on a modern haft; the second in excavated condition, of 'bearded' form, and struck with a mark on one side (the socket broken out on one side, the haft modern).
The heads 8½in (21.6cm) and 6¼in (16cm) (2)

Special Notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Provenance

(The second) Karl Georg Gimbel, Rudolph Lepke, Baden-Baden, May 30-June 3, 1904, lot 674
Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 163

Lot Notes

A near identical axe-head is in the Museums fur Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin (59.3493).
See Heinrich Müller, Europäische Hieb-und Stichwaffen, 1981, no.293.

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