17TH CENTURY
Details
A Very Rare Slavonic Bardiche
17th Century
With flat head with long narrow crescent-shaped blade struck on one face with a mark, the lower end prolonged as a short bar with a scrolled tip bound to the staff with thongs, short thick socket, the rear forming a wedge-shaped peen with serrated edge, and stout slightly tapering wooden staff of oval section
24in. (61cm.) head
17th Century
With flat head with long narrow crescent-shaped blade struck on one face with a mark, the lower end prolonged as a short bar with a scrolled tip bound to the staff with thongs, short thick socket, the rear forming a wedge-shaped peen with serrated edge, and stout slightly tapering wooden staff of oval section
24in. (61cm.) head
Provenance
Clment Bosson
Exhibited
Armes Anciennes Des Collections Suisses, Muse Rath, Geneva, 26 May - 27 August 1972, Cat. No. 286