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Lot 99W

An Early Halberd
Possibly South German, Late 15th/16th Century

30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Early Halberd
Possibly South German, Late 15th/16th Century

With crescent-shaped blade pierced with a slipped trefoil and drawn-out to two points at the back and with a single point beneath, each point pierced with three circular holes behind, and struck twice on one side with a maker's mark, a star between two crescents, secured at the back between the tapering socket which is formed at the back into a faceted spike and prolonged as two wide side-straps beneath, two further slender side-straps secured by three iron rings, and original wooden haft of square section (light pitting)
25.7 cm. head

Footnotes

For a similar polearm struck with the same marks and described as a 'hache á croc', see Armes Anciennes Des Collections Suisses, Musée Rath, Geneva, 26 May-27 August 1972, no. 235 (illustrated). This halberd is one of a distinctive group, two others of which are in the C. Otto von Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia. See The Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection of Armor and Arms, 1963, nos. 497 and 498, pp. 120-121, pl. CXVII. For a further example sold in these Rooms see Fine Antique Arms and Armour, 27 November 2008, lot 98

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