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Fig. 896a. Pole-axe
Probably English, early XVIth century K 84, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris
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Fig. 897. Pole-axe
Probably Burgundian, about 1480 Ex Meyrick and Noël Paton Collections Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
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Fig. 898. The "Luzern" hammer
Swiss, about 1560 Collection: Author
owned by King Henry IV of England. There is, however, the possibility that it might have originally belonged to the English crown; for it tallies very closely with the description of the only weapon resembling it which figures in the Greenwich inventory of 1542 (State Papers, Domestic, Henry VIII, 1542, fol. 64). On the first page is the following entry: "Item Oone pollaxe the head [p]tely gilt and at the hammer end having iij picks within the same a Roose gilt the staff garnished with crymson velloet fringed with red silke." In the 1547 inventory of Greenwich this pole-axe again
