Marteau d'armes, dans le style allemand de... - Lot 100 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Marteau d'armes, dans le style allemand de la première moitié du XVIe siècle. A German horseman's war hammer, in the style of the first half of the 16th century. With robust iron head formed with a short hammer with small rectangular face, rear fluke slightly down-turned and of tapering rectangular section, decorated over the sides with file-work, both as small bevels and pairs of bold chamfers, retained by a transverse bolt passing through a rectangular central socket, the bolt carrying a belt hook, on its original wooden haft entirely encased by strips of iron, the front and rear covered by a single long strip folded over the base and decorated over the lower half with filed ornament matching the head, the sides pierced for a thong, and fitted with an iron collar above the grip and a fluted iron finial surmounting the hammer. L.: 50 cm - L. hammer-head: 12 cm.