M asse d'armes à ailettes, Hongrie ou Pologne... - Lot 91 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

M asse d'armes à ailettes, Hongrie ou Pologne fin XVIe - début XVIIe siècle. A horseman's mace, Hungarian or Polish, late 16th - early 17th century. Made entirely of steel, the head formed of seven hemispherical flanges widening in section towards the middle, cut with pairs of very narrow flutes over the outer edges, brazed onto a tubular core, one struck with a mark (in a circle a large "N" or "Z" flanked by two small letters, one an "o", the other rubbed), and the head retained by a faceted finial rising to a knop, with tubular socket struck with a mark, the letter "C", pierced for a thong, and incised linear grip formed with a raised cabled collar at the inner end and a moulded collar about an open socket. L.: 53.7 cm. The "C" mark stamped on the haft may be an early ownership mark, possibly that of an East European armoury; a very similar mark is stamped on the front of the Nuremberg helmet formed in the Ottoman fashion and offered as lot 89 from the Klingbeil collection. This helmet is of a type intended for export from Nuremberg for use by Hungarian or Polish light cavalry in the Austro-Turkish wars spanning the late 16th and early 17th centuries.