EARLY 16TH CENTURY
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Early 16th Century
The axe-blade decorated with incised circles, lines, and crescents on one side and struck below the spike with a maker's mark, three diagonal pellets in a lozenge, the fluke pierced with circular holes, open socket, four waved side-straps, the two shorter ones made separately, and wooden staff (an old replacement below the straps)
20in. (50.8cm.) head
The same mark appears on a halberd described as 15th-16th Century in the Bern Historical Museum. See R. Wegeli, Inventar der Waffensammlung des Bernischen Historischen Museums in Bern, III, 1939, Cat. No. 1472
Early 16th Century
The axe-blade decorated with incised circles, lines, and crescents on one side and struck below the spike with a maker's mark, three diagonal pellets in a lozenge, the fluke pierced with circular holes, open socket, four waved side-straps, the two shorter ones made separately, and wooden staff (an old replacement below the straps)
20in. (50.8cm.) head
The same mark appears on a halberd described as 15th-16th Century in the Bern Historical Museum. See R. Wegeli, Inventar der Waffensammlung des Bernischen Historischen Museums in Bern, III, 1939, Cat. No. 1472