Lot Essay
Comparative literature for the two axe-heads with short wooden hafts: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the end of the Middle Ages, New York, 1975, p. 105.
17TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF FIVE WOODWORKING AXE-HEADS, PROBABLY GERMAN
17TH CENTURY
Each boldly struck with marks and decorative stamps, two pierced with a trefoil, two with an early short wooden haft (5)
17TH CENTURY
Each boldly struck with marks and decorative stamps, two pierced with a trefoil, two with an early short wooden haft (5)
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