A HALBERD with leaf-shaped blade, tapering socket slotted for the crescentic axe-blade and fluke, the former cusped at the back and pierced with shaped holes and a central cross, the latter also pierced with shaped holes and with a backscroll, two screw-in curved side-spikes (one detached), and two side-straps, on wooden staff with iron shoe, possibly Swiss, 18th Century; and another, with broad leaf-shaped spear-blade with strong medial ridge on each side, flat beak-shaped fluke with scoll above, and faceted socket (axe-blade broken off, side-straps missing, rust patinated), on later wooden staff, late 16th/early 17th Century

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A HALBERD with leaf-shaped blade, tapering socket slotted for the crescentic axe-blade and fluke, the former cusped at the back and pierced with shaped holes and a central cross, the latter also pierced with shaped holes and with a backscroll, two screw-in curved side-spikes (one detached), and two side-straps, on wooden staff with iron shoe, possibly Swiss, 18th Century; and another, with broad leaf-shaped spear-blade with strong medial ridge on each side, flat beak-shaped fluke with scoll above, and faceted socket (axe-blade broken off, side-straps missing, rust patinated), on later wooden staff, late 16th/early 17th Century
13½in. and 15in. heads (2)

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