**A RARE BAVARIAN SABRE HALBERD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
with very long slightly curved central sabre-blade formed with a hatchet-point and a long fuller on each face, curved axe-blade, tapering socket with bevelled edges, a pair of long straps, on its wooden haft, perhaps the original, fitted with an additional pair of straps and applied with brass inventory tag 'A.1638'111.2 cm; 43 3/4 in head

Provenance
York Galleries, New York, 27 September 1927

JWHA Inv. No. 362

A large number of halberds of this form, formerly in the Bavarian arsenal, are now preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum, Ingoldstadt. Other examples were sold in these rooms 10 December 2008 lot 185 and 4 December 2013, lot 162. See H. Seitz 1968, p. 216, ill. 221.
£800-1000