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
AN ITALIAN HALBERD, IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE
Lot 85

AN ITALIAN HALBERD, IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE

19TH CENTURY

Closed20 September 2007

Price Realised

GBP 525

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AN ITALIAN HALBERD, IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE
19th Century
With one-piece cutting blade and trident fluke retained by a transverse bolt with pyramidal heads (one replaced), the cutting blade with convex leading edge, cusped back edges, and struck with a mark on one face, separate central spike of rectangular section extending at the bottom to form a pair of iron straps, and on an octagonal haft with an additional pair of side straps completing a rectangular socket.
The head 25in (63.5cm)

Musée de la Porte de Hal, Brussels
Hal Furmage, London