Styrian (Austria) Halberd, ca. 1580

$1,395.00

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SKU: PH1820 Category:

Description

Featuring 27″ diamond-section thrusting spike; deeply concave axe blade stamped with
eyelash marks and pierced with three groups of punched holes; downward angled rear
beak stamped with a cogwheel maker’s mark and pierced with three punched holes.
Single shortened side strap and mounted on later hardwood shaft with iron retaining band
featuring punched dot line borders. Length of metal 33 1/8″; overall 84 ½”. Metal showing
great age with pitting, lamination, and forging flaws. The eyelash mark is found on many
Styrian weapons and similar examples can be found in the Landeszeughaus (state
arsenal) Graz, part of the Steiermarkisches Landesmuseum in Graz, Austria. Similar
example illustrated in “Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe”, by John
Waldman, Fig. 72a. Price includes shipping in the contiguous USA, the cost of which has
doubled since Covid!

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Styrian (Austria) Halberd, ca. 1580

$1,595.00

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SKU: PH1746 Categories: ,

Description

Hand-forged from two billets of steel and featuring canted deeply concave 5″ axe blade
pierced with round holes in a central rosette and two sets of three holes each and stamped
with a pair of eyelash marks; reverse with upturned lug and downward-angled beak
stamped with 4-leaf clover-shaped maker’s mark. Broad leaf-shaped 19 ½” thrusting blade
with medial ridge, pierced with three holes on each side at the base. Shortened integrally
forged langets; mounted on later rectangular-section hardwood shaft with molded corners.
Length of metal 26 3/4″, overall length 90″. The eyelash mark is typical of the regions of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire which battled the Turks for centuries. Similar examples can
be found in the Landeszeughaus Graz, Austria.

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