Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

230 231230A SWISS HALBERD, 17TH CENTURYwith stout central spike, long slightly curved axe-bladestamped with a mark on one side (rubbed), triangular rearfluke cut with a small projection above, a pair of longstraps, on its wooden haft fitted with a pair of additionalstraps99.5cm; 39D in headFor a halberd of strikingly similar form struck with a similar,possibly the same, mark see J.A. Meier, p.245 and ill. 20.£1500-2000231A RARE GERMAN LINSTOCK, 17TH CENTURYformed as a double-headed eagle, with central spike ofdiamond-section, the base with a pair of heads each fittedwith a screw for fixing match, a pair of feathered wings andfour-clawed talons, engraved with patterns of feathersthroughout, moulded socket, and retaining much earlytinned finish throughout: on a later wooden haftA similar linstock, formerly in the Beardmore collection, ispreserved in the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection,The Philadelphia Musuem of Art, no. 610. Another from theNuremberg Castle collection, was sold 1890, lot 1941.£1000-120091