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17TH CENTURY
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A very rare Turkish or Polish war-hammer
17th Century
The iron head comprising a hammer-head of rectangular section balanced by a long fluted downcurved beak-shaped fluke, decorated overall with narrow engraved bands of wrigglework and circles of radiating lines, with silver ferrules above and below the head chased with repeated flowerheads within shaped frames, on leather-covered wooden haft with deep silver ferrule at the bottom decorated en suite
27 5/8in. (70.2cm.)
17th Century
The iron head comprising a hammer-head of rectangular section balanced by a long fluted downcurved beak-shaped fluke, decorated overall with narrow engraved bands of wrigglework and circles of radiating lines, with silver ferrules above and below the head chased with repeated flowerheads within shaped frames, on leather-covered wooden haft with deep silver ferrule at the bottom decorated en suite
27 5/8in. (70.2cm.)