A German Or East European Mace, Late 16th Century
Entirely of steel, with onion-shaped head of seventeen rounded flanges surmounted by a threaded fleur-de-lys shaped spike of diamond section on a cushion-shaped base, on a tubular haft in three stages, multi-faceted beneath the head between roped mouldings, and with grip swelling towards the base and incised with slender lines becoming spiral over most of its length, and with later loop for a thong
65.3 cm.
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Entirely of steel, with onion-shaped head of seventeen rounded flanges surmounted by a threaded fleur-de-lys shaped spike of diamond section on a cushion-shaped base, on a tubular haft in three stages, multi-faceted beneath the head between roped mouldings, and with grip swelling towards the base and incised with slender lines becoming spiral over most of its length, and with later loop for a thong
65.3 cm.
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