PERHAPS GERMAN, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
Details
An Axe
Perhaps German, 15th/16th Century
With large crescent-shaped blade deeply cusped at the back and struck on one face with the mark of a cross in a circle, prolonged at the back as a tongue riveted between two strips of iron welded together at the top into a sharp backturned spike and prolonged at the bottom as an open socket with two long side-straps, on later wooden staff
16in. (42.6cm.) head
Perhaps German, 15th/16th Century
With large crescent-shaped blade deeply cusped at the back and struck on one face with the mark of a cross in a circle, prolonged at the back as a tongue riveted between two strips of iron welded together at the top into a sharp backturned spike and prolonged at the bottom as an open socket with two long side-straps, on later wooden staff
16in. (42.6cm.) head
Exhibited
Armes Anciennes Des Collections Suisses, Muse Rath, Geneva, 26 May - 27 August 1972, Cat. No. 237