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LOT 1048

Sold for (Inc. bp): £442

CEREMONIAL POLEARM WITH WOODEN SHAFT
CIRCA 18TH CENTURY A.D.
70 7/8 in. (2 kg, 1.8 m).

Iron-headed 'Lucerne hammer' on a short wooden shaft; the hammer-face with three sturdy spikes, square-section spearhead above and curved bec de corbin to the rear with two short lateral spikes, languets extending down the faces of the shaft.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman collector.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Oakeshott, E., European Weapons and Armour, London, 1980, p. 51.

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