Live Auction 7468Antique 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
A GERMAN HALBERD
Lot 81

A GERMAN HALBERD

THE HEAD LATE 16TH CENTURY

Closed20 September 2007

Price Realised

GBP 2,000

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A GERMAN HALBERD
The head late 16th Century
With angular cutting blade and flat rear fluke, central spike, open socket extending to form a pair of long straps, and on an early wooden haft applied with an additional pair of half-length straps at the sides (the spike bent).
The head 20in (50.8cm)

Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 9