**AN ITALIAN PARTISAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a medial ridge, two pairs of basal lugs (one chipped, tip bent), the lower pair strongly down-curved, tapering hexagonal socket, on a wooden haft 91 cm; 36 3/4 in head Provenance Edward Hubbard Litchfield, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 5 December 1951 JWHA Inv. No. 2968 Exhibited Charleston Art Gallery of Sunrise, West Virginia, January - May 1975