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Lot 360
A HalberdLate 16th/Early 17th Century, Probably Italian
1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £660 inc. premium
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Late 16th/Early 17th Century, Probably Italian
Late 16th/Early 17th Century, Probably Italian
With long spike of stiff diamond section, slender crescentic axe-blade and beak-shaped fluke each with circular and other piercings, the former with blunt projections above and below, open socket, and shortened side-straps, on later wooden staff covered in brown velvet (worn and damage) secured by dome-headed brass nails
58.7 cm. head
58.7 cm. head
Footnotes
Provenance:
Miss Dorothy Taylor, Greythwaite, Whalley, Lancashire
By repute the Earls of Pembroke




