A HALBERD of early form, the flat head with wide spike reinforced at the point and struck at the bottom of one face with a mark, narrow axe-blade with concave edge, flat triangular fluke, the socket within the head, forming a tapering gable-shaped central rib on each face, pyramidal side-spikes (one replaced), and two long side-straps, on wooden staff of octagonal section (some worming), Swiss or German, late 15th Century | Christie's

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A HALBERD of early form, the flat head with wide spike reinforced at the point and struck at the bottom of one face with a mark, narrow axe-blade with concave edge, flat triangular fluke, the socket within the head, forming a tapering gable-shaped central rib on each face, pyramidal side-spikes (one replaced), and two long side-straps, on wooden staff of octagonal section (some worming), Swiss or German, late 15th Century

细节

A HALBERD of early form, the flat head with wide spike reinforced at the point and struck at the bottom of one face with a mark, narrow axe-blade with concave edge, flat triangular fluke, the socket within the head, forming a tapering gable-shaped central rib on each face, pyramidal side-spikes (one replaced), and two long side-straps, on wooden staff of octagonal section (some worming), Swiss or German, late 15th Century
20in. head

拍品专文

Cf. similar halberds in the Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia, Nos. 470-72