ANOTHER, the strongly crescentic blade and beak-shaped fluke pierced with circular holes, the latter struck with a mark, a cross in a shield, four straps (one incomplete), and wooden staff of square section, late 16th Century, probably Swiss (Basel?)

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ANOTHER, the strongly crescentic blade and beak-shaped fluke pierced with circular holes, the latter struck with a mark, a cross in a shield, four straps (one incomplete), and wooden staff of square section, late 16th Century, probably Swiss (Basel?)
26in. head

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The mark resembles the town mark of Basel

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