Description
Blackened iron axe head with 4 3/4″ convex cutting edge with round eye, decorated on
both sides with gold Arabic inscription. Leather-covered 23 3/4″ wood shaft with brass
sleeves incised with pairs of spiral lines; each end with decorative brass end caps. A well-
balanced decorative battle axe of the era of the Siege of Vienna.










Bronze Age Mace Head, Western Asiatic, ca. 1200-700 BC
European Field Sword/Rapier, Last Quarter 17th C
Spanish or Portuguese Cuphilt Bilbo Broadsword, Early 18th C
British 1857 Tower Percussion Artillery Carbine