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THE HEAD 16TH CENTURY
Details
A GERMAN BATTLE-AXE
The head 16th Century
The blade with convex cutting edge, the lower edge strongly cusped, pierced with a single slipped-trefoil, struck with two decorative marks and boldly with a larger mark on one face, tubular socket, and robust tapering peen of rectangular section: on a carved nodular wooden haft iron-mounted at the base.
The head 5¼in (13.3cm)
The head 16
The blade with convex cutting edge, the lower edge strongly cusped, pierced with a single slipped-trefoil, struck with two decorative marks and boldly with a larger mark on one face, tubular socket, and robust tapering peen of rectangular section: on a carved nodular wooden haft iron-mounted at the base.
The head 5¼
Provenance
Karl Georg Gimbel, Rudolph Lepke, Baden-Baden, May 30-June 3, 1904, lot 685
Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 159
Henry Griffith Keasbey, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, lot 159
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium