30th June 2016, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 13
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
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!
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Thank you!
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