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A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 700.00 USD
A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERD
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...
Of classic form, the massive head with ogival terminal and convex cutting edge, chiseled with cuvilineal maker's marks and bearing the stamp of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. With rectangular socket and offset hardwood haft. Mid-16th century.Purchased by John Woodman Higgins from Parke-Bernet Galleries, N.Y.C. October 24, 1956, ex-Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., gift of William H. Riggs, 1913.Deaccessioned from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA.Overall length 208.8 cm. Condition II