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Originally Posted by Zauberflöte
I'm impressed by your observations gentlemen, many thanks so far.
So Austrian origin (or German such as HH claims) is a safe bet?
Best.
F.
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As once pointed out to me by a well respected arms author, weapons have few, if any, geographic boundaries. In most of the markings references I checked, halberd markings in many cases had double captions German/Austrian and of course Swiss fell into similar umbrella.
Naturally if the maker can be positively identified we can presume at least that part of the weapon can be attributed accordingly. Often components were exchanged across borders, as were refurbishings during working life.
A very nice halberd example in any case!