Lot 134
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ANOTHER, similar, the axe-blade pierced with a cross and a trefoil, on original wooden staff (slightly wormed) with iron reinforcing ring and spike at the bottom (some rust patination), late 16th Century

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ANOTHER, similar, the axe-blade pierced with a cross and a trefoil, on original wooden staff (slightly wormed) with iron reinforcing ring and spike at the bottom (some rust patination), late 16th Century
20in. head

Lot Essay

This and the previous lot relate to a group of halberds apparently associated with Bern. See C. Blair, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, No. 86

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