A RARE GERMAN MILITARY SPEAR, LATE 15TH CENTURY with medially-ridged leaf-shaped head, long tapering socket drawn-out in the middle to form a pair of long triangular flukes each pierced with three groups of holes, struck with a mark on each side, in a shield, two stars above a horizontal line and a further star beneath, on an early wooden haft bound with a trellis pattern of leather 38.7cm; 15 1/4in head Literature Dr J. Fastenau, Die Waffensammlung, 1910, no. 282