VARIOUS PROPERTIES
An Italian Pike-Head
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
Details
An Italian Pike-Head
Second Quarter Of The 16th Century
The small leaf-shaped blade of slightly hollow flattened diamond section, struck on each face with a maker's mark and pounced with conventional foliage (rubbed), linked by a grooved spherical moulding to a tapering reeded socket with two side-straps (incomplete), on a small part of the original staff
17¾in. (45.2cm.)
Probably from Henry VIII's armoury. Many similar pike-heads are in the Royal Armouries
Second Quarter Of The 16th Century
The small leaf-shaped blade of slightly hollow flattened diamond section, struck on each face with a maker's mark and pounced with conventional foliage (rubbed), linked by a grooved spherical moulding to a tapering reeded socket with two side-straps (incomplete), on a small part of the original staff
17¾in. (45.2cm.)
Probably from Henry VIII's armoury. Many similar pike-heads are in the Royal Armouries