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A SWISS HALBERD with tapering triangular blade of flat diamond section, made in one with the axe-blade and fluke, the former crescentic with convex edge and cusped back, pierced with a cross between two trefoils, the latter chisel-shaped and with a pointed back-scroll, two short side-spikes, and four long side-straps, their upper ends forming a tapering socket, on original wooden staff, late 16th Century
19¾in. head
19¾in. head