A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUAR…
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A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with long tapering terminal spike of diamond section, forward-leaning curved axe-blade pierced with three slipped quatrefoils, rear fluke pierced en suite, stamped with a mark, a medieval sword hilt, and with three pellets arranged vertically, short tapering socket, and a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft fitted with an additional pair of straps, 107.0 cm head A halberd struck with same mark is preserved in the Styrian Zeughaus, Graz, see Pichler 1880, plate XXVII, fig. 1.

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A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

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