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Lot 91*

A German Or Swiss Halberd
Early 16th Century

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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A German Or Swiss Halberd
Early 16th Century

With stout spike of stiff diamond section struck on one side of the flattened base with a mark, a cross and two circles within a shield, triangular axe-blade with oblique cutting-edge and struck with the same mark on one side, sloping beak-shaped fluke (some lamination), open socket, and four side-straps, the shorter one made separately, on wooden staff of octagonal section with domed brass-headed nails at the top and stamped with three 'M'-shaped marks with a bar across the top along each side (some light pitting)
45 cm. head

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. John Waldman Collection
Sotheby's New York, 14 June 1996, lot 390

Literature:
John Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ..., 2005, pp. 93-94, fig. 82, mark no. 67b

Cf. a similar halberd in the C. Otto von Kienbusch Collection, no. 486

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