ANOTHER, similar, but more elaborate, with waved spear-head shaped spike and turned mouldings at its base, the axe-head and fluke pierced with scrollwork, vertically recurved screw-in side-spikes, four straps, and wooden staff (probably original) reinforced at the end with a ring and a short spike, late 17th Century, probably Swiss

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ANOTHER, similar, but more elaborate, with waved spear-head shaped spike and turned mouldings at its base, the axe-head and fluke pierced with scrollwork, vertically recurved screw-in side-spikes, four straps, and wooden staff (probably original) reinforced at the end with a ring and a short spike, late 17th Century, probably Swiss
22¼in. head

Lot Essay

For a discussion of halberds of this type and their connection with Bern see C. Blair, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, pp.218-20

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