Description
Featuring broad 12 1/2” leaf-shaped blade, pierced and chiseled with foliage and human figures and faces, with a pair of short, upturned lugs at the base. Below the lugs is a hollow knot formed of six chiseled face medallions; conical ferrule engraved with foliage. Mounted on tapering octagonal oak shaft with turned ball at the base. The face medallions are commonly found on Italian polearms of the late 16th and 17th Centuries. Length of metal 21”, overall 89”. This exact polearm pictured in “TREASURES OF THE CARIBBEAN”, by Rodney Hilton Brown, on page 295. Formerly in the War Museum Collection. Price includes shipping within the Contiguous United States, the cost of which has doubled since COVID.