**AN ITALIAN HALBERD, LATE 16TH CENTURY AND A GERMAN HALBERD, PERHAPS LATE 16TH CENTURY the first with long tapering central spike of diamond-section, curved axe-blade with pierced lugs behind and a reinforced point, rear fluke formed en suite and with reinforced tip, a pair of straps, the head retaining traces of engraving, on a small portion of an early wooden haft (extensive worm damage), the second with forward leaning axe-blade pierced with a quatrefoil, triangular rear spike pierced with a slipped trefoil, central spike of diamond-section, a pair of long straps (one broken, the head pitted) on a wooden haft (shortened) the first: 63.5 cm; 25 in head the second: 30.3 cm; 19 7/8 in head (2) Provenance JWHA Inv. Nos. 2546, 2082