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4th March 2012, 10:20 PM
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Nice one! That Germanic type remained in vogue for several centuries, unchanged, up to the 18th century. I have such similar axes in my collection.
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5th March 2012, 08:16 PM
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Can we see them, PLEASE?!
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9th March 2012, 05:42 PM
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 although after looking at them they only similar, not exactly alike, though clearly of the same 'family'. The oldest one is the three-stamp with the cut out, appr. 1600-1650.
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9th March 2012, 08:13 PM
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Not bad though I feel a bit relieved that none is actually as characteristically Gothic -and of huge dimensions! - as mine was.
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9th March 2012, 10:10 PM
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Not those. I do have a gothic axe, circa 1500, but for woodworking.
Very similar to the one on the left here (woodcut by Durer, 1500): |
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14th March 2012, 05:36 PM
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Oh yeah, these may be found sometimes.
Original 500-year-old foot combat axes are immeasurably rare. Actually the only I have ever seen in a museum that were preserved in good condition and retaining their original hafts dared from the mid to the late 16th century and used to be on display in the Old Town Armory in the Stadtmuseum Munich (which has been closed down to the public for some 15 years, photos of 1987 attached). I attach photos and line drawings of them. The ones on the images on the bottom are the latest, dating from the end of the 16th c. - and some close-ups of a parcel-gilt and finely preserved specimen of ca. mid-16th c. date retaining its original red-stained haft; deeply struck maker's marks: a crescent and a pellet (Bavarian private collection - not mine). Best, Michael Last edited by Matchlock; 14th March 2012 at 08:10 PM. |
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19th March 2012, 06:45 PM
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Another foot soldier's axe, the blade ca. 1st half to mid-16th c., sold at auction at Fischer, Lucerne, in September 2007.
Best, Michael |
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