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LOT 1013

Sold for (Inc. bp): £390

GERMAN SOCKETTED IRON HALBERD
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
17 3/4 in. (756 grams, 45 cm).

With square-section body and tapering spike, lateral languets pierced for attachment to the haft, hook to the rear and thick blade with crescent recess, pierced.

PROVENANCE:
Ex California, USA, collection formed since the late 1960s.
European art market before the late 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. similar in the Tower Armouries Collection, Leeds, under accession no.VII.1534.

CONDITION
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