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Lot 85*

A Rare Fighting Axe
Probably Norweigian, 15th Century

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Fighting Axe
Probably Norweigian, 15th Century

The triangular iron head (some pitting) with reinforced convex cutting edge drawn-up to a tall point at the top and with shorter point below, and deeply struck with a moon-shaped mark on one side, integral socket flat along the back, bluntly-pointed on each side above and sharply pointed beneath, on later wooden haft
19 cm. head

Footnotes

Provenance
Christie's London, The Harold L. Peterson Collection of Arms and Armour, 5 July 1978, lot 100
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

Literature
Harold L. Peterson, The Book of the Gun, 1963, p. 14

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