AN AXE with short rectangular socket deeply chequered at the rear and linked by a short tongue to the large crescentic blade with convex edge (tips chipped), struck on one face with a mark, a halberd of 16th Century type in a shield, and later wooden staff, 16th Century, possibly Swiss; an Indo-Persian horseman's axe, the head of watered steel with triangular blade with convex edge and square peen, and wooden staff, 18th Century; and a small axe with brass head engraved with sprays of foliage, and wooden staff, probably 18th Century