AN ITALIAN HALBERD with long slender spike of stiff diamond section widening at the base into a shaped feature flanked by double points, flat crescentic axe-blade and beak-shaped fluke, with fleur-de-lys shaped projections at their bases and ornamentally pierced, the former including a cross with heart-shaped ends, and engraved with conventional scrollwork involving a coat-of-arms on each face of the axe-blade, and two straps, on wooden staff (in two pieces) covered with red velvet (worn) studded with brass nails and with two silk tassels, late 16th Century