MID-16TH CENTURY
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A Swiss Or German Halberd
Mid-16th Century
With flat head, the axe-blade with straight cutting-edge and incurved sides, and flat triangular fluke pierced respectively with a quatrefoil and a slipped trefoil, slender stiff spike, tapering open socket, two side-straps, and original wooden staff
20¾in. (52.7cm.) head
For an almost identical halberd with a maker's mark see Antiche Armi Dal Sec. IX Al XVIII già Collezione Odescalchi, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1969, No. 358
Mid-16th Century
With flat head, the axe-blade with straight cutting-edge and incurved sides, and flat triangular fluke pierced respectively with a quatrefoil and a slipped trefoil, slender stiff spike, tapering open socket, two side-straps, and original wooden staff
20¾in. (52.7cm.) head
For an almost identical halberd with a maker's mark see Antiche Armi Dal Sec. IX Al XVIII già Collezione Odescalchi, Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1969, No. 358