East European war hammer

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Originally Posted by Gavin Nugent

I'm no idea if this is correct for EU arms of the era but I suspect not

Gavin

This brought me to take a second look and there is something which is suspect to me.
The combined axis of spike and hammer is not straight as it should be.
I explained this circumstance to myself with this object beeing under acute pressure while beeing in the ground. Such "fantasy" explanations with thrown together ideas in dubio pro reo are the first step to excuse dubious specimen.

The ring beeing perfectly round with mismatching axes should be a warning sign. See attachment.