**A NORTH EUROPEAN HALBERD, 17TH CENTURY with shaped central blade, curved axe-blade and flat rear spike each pierced with heart-shaped apertures, transverse bolt, tapering socket incorporating a large shaped collar, a pair of straps, on a later wooden haft 40.5 cm; 16 in head Provenance Clapp & Graham Co., New York, 11 January 1927 JWHA Inv. No. 43