**A POLEAXE, MID-17TH CENTURY, PROBABALY SWISS with slightly curved axe blade rising to a sharp central point, stamped twice on each side with a mark, a cross with the letter 'O' above in a shaped recess, stout rear spike, and a pair of separate long straps, on a wooden haft 28 cm; 11 in head A related axe is preserved in the National Artillery Museum, Turin, inv. no. J. 4/5107, and another in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich. For the latter see Dr. E. A. Gessler 1928, table 12.