A SWISS HALBERD of Sempach type, with flat spike (bent) of diamond section reinforced at the point, narrow flat slightly curved axe-blade (cutting edge damaged), short beak-shaped fluke (tip broken off) struck with maker's mark at the base, perhaps of Jean Jacques 1 Perrelet of Le Locle, later side-spikes, socket, and two long side-spikes, on later wooden staff (wormed and incomplete), third quarter of the 17th Century

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A SWISS HALBERD of Sempach type, with flat spike (bent) of diamond section reinforced at the point, narrow flat slightly curved axe-blade (cutting edge damaged), short beak-shaped fluke (tip broken off) struck with maker's mark at the base, perhaps of Jean Jacques 1 Perrelet of Le Locle, later side-spikes, socket, and two long side-spikes, on later wooden staff (wormed and incomplete), third quarter of the 17th Century
15in. head

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For a similar mark see Hugo Schneider, Schweizer Waffenschmiede, 1976, p. 210

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