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A RARE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN BATTLEAXE

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN BATTLEAXE
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
The bearded head of exceptionally broad section, tapering to an acute edge, with rectangular poll.The wooden haft a working-life replacement. Ex-Dr. Bashford Dean Collection (first curator of arms and armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., 1904-1929,) purchased by John Woodman Higgins Sept 28, 1929, donated to the Higgins Armory Museum on December 26, 1946. Ex-Higgins Armory Museum Collection.Late 15th-early 16th century. Some wear. Overall length131.4 cm. Condition II