A GERMAN OR SWISS HALBERD with long spike of stiff diamond section, flat crescentic axe-blade and triangular down-bent fluke, the latter struck with a maker's mark, and both pierced with circular holes, tapering open socket, and four long straps, on wooden staff (wormed, mostly replaced), late 16th/early 17th Century

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A GERMAN OR SWISS HALBERD with long spike of stiff diamond section, flat crescentic axe-blade and triangular down-bent fluke, the latter struck with a maker's mark, and both pierced with circular holes, tapering open socket, and four long straps, on wooden staff (wormed, mostly replaced), late 16th/early 17th Century
31¾in. head
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