**AN ITALIAN GLAIVE (FAUCHARD), LATE 16TH CENTURY with curved knife-like blade formed with a sharp back edge and elongated rear spike, stamped with a scorpion mark and the letter M twice, arranged vertically (rubbed) on one face, apair of short basal lugs, tapering faceted socket, on a wooden haft with tassel 83.5 cm; 33 in head Provenance French & Co, New York, 18th January 1949 JWHA Inv. No. 3474