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HELBARD Swiss, 2nd / 3rd quarter of the 16th century. Solid,...

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HELBARD Swiss, 2nd / 3rd quarter of the 16th century. Solid, square tip, trapezoidal blade with slanted straight edge, blade upper and lower edges and beaked hooks with scalloped incisions, mark: pentagon with an eight-pointed star. Two langets and bands. Original octagonal shaft with the initials of the owner "FB" and a stylized tree- or leaf mark. L 234 cm. Provenance: - Collection M. Sigrist, Lucerne. Beautifully-designed combat halberd with original marked shaft. Cf. Gessler, Waffensammlung Schweiz. Landesmuseum 1928, Plate 18.