A GERMAN BATTLE-AXE
The head 16th Century
The blade with convex cutting edge, the lower edge strongly cusped, pierced with a single slipped-trefoil, struck with two decorative marks and boldly with a larger mark on one face, tubular socket, and robust tapering peen of rectangular section: on a carved nodular wooden haft iron-mounted at the base.
The head 5¼in (13.3cm)
A GERMAN BATTLE-AXE
The head 16th Century
The blade with convex cutting edge, the lower edge strongly cusped, pierced with a single slipped-trefoil, struck with two decorative marks and boldly with a larger mark on one face, tubular socket, and robust tapering peen of rectangular section: on a carved nodular wooden haft iron-mounted at the base.
The head 5¼in (13.3cm)