A GERMAN OR SWISS HALBERD with slender spike of stiff diamond section, flat crescentic axe-blade and small triangular down-bent fluke, the former etched on one side with a spread eagle in a shield (rubbed), open socket struck on each side with a mark, and two side-straps (one incomplete), on later wooden staff (wormed, cracked and repaired), late 16th Century

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A GERMAN OR SWISS HALBERD with slender spike of stiff diamond section, flat crescentic axe-blade and small triangular down-bent fluke, the former etched on one side with a spread eagle in a shield (rubbed), open socket struck on each side with a mark, and two side-straps (one incomplete), on later wooden staff (wormed, cracked and repaired), late 16th Century
20¾in. head

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