very old military halberd spear axe. It has a tomahawk style axe on one side with a iron hook? on the backside. According to wikidpedia...
very old military halberd spear axe. It has a tomahawk style axe on one side with a iron hook? on the backside. According to wikidpedia the drooping blade behind the axe is called a hook or thorn. Off the top edge is a spear blade. This old weapon has it all. The handle looks also very old and probably is original. The wicked looking combination is attached to the handle with a iron rive. The head is obviously all forged. You can see the two pieces that were heated together. There is a iron ring around the top of handle that would keep the handle from splitting. It is loose. There is no question that this weapon is very old. This axe has been well used and has great petina. It measures 34.25 long x 9 wide. The axe blade is 4.25 wide. I have tried to research this piece. Here is a definition of a Halberd from Wikidpedia;
A
halberd (also called
halbard,
halbert or
Swiss voulge) is a two-handed pole weapon that came to prominent use during the 14th and 15th centuries. The word
halberd may come from the German words
Halm (staff), and
Barte (axe). In modern-day German, the weapon is called a
Hellebarde. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants.
[1] It is very similar to certain forms of the voulge in design and usage. The halberd was 1.5 to 1.8 metres (5 to 6 feet) long.
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