17TH CENTURY
细节
An English Pollaxe
17th Century
The head comprising slender hammer formed as a rod with a block-shaped face, slender beak-like fluke, sharply-pointed crossbar, flat leaf-shaped spear-head struck on each face with a mark ('CB'?), tapering moulded socket, and two straps, on later wooden staff
15 7/8in. (40.4cm.) head
Six similar pollaxes, all bearing the mark 'CB' are in the Royal Armouries (No.s VII.888-93). It has been suggested that they were used by Charles I's bodyguard, the Gentleman at Arms, during the English Civil War. See C.J. Ffoulkes, Inventory of the Armouries of the Tower of London, 1916, p. 239
17th Century
The head comprising slender hammer formed as a rod with a block-shaped face, slender beak-like fluke, sharply-pointed crossbar, flat leaf-shaped spear-head struck on each face with a mark ('CB'?), tapering moulded socket, and two straps, on later wooden staff
15 7/8in. (40.4cm.) head
Six similar pollaxes, all bearing the mark 'CB' are in the Royal Armouries (No.s VII.888-93). It has been suggested that they were used by Charles I's bodyguard, the Gentleman at Arms, during the English Civil War. See C.J. Ffoulkes, Inventory of the Armouries of the Tower of London, 1916, p. 239