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Customer commentsedged weapons
This comprises the study and development of swords, daggers, polearms and Third Reich dress dirks. Most of this material is well covered by excellent modern reference books and examples can be seen in European and American museums. My own personal interest is in 18th-century small swords, Napoleonic era swords and naval dirks. Museums with important collections include: the Royal Armouries, Leeds; the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Musee de l'Armee, Paris; Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna; and various other museums in European capitals.
Here is a selection of militaria from this category:
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Silver-mounted whalebone-hilted dirk - Adriatic
Dirks of this quality would have been carried by merchant seamen in the Mediterranean area, also by pirates. It could well be a Croatian piece.
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Runka or Ranseur (polearm) - Italian
This classic Italian (almost certainly made in the Veneto, Venice's hinterland) infantry polearm saw continuous use from the late 15th to the early 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum shows five of these in Stone's Glossary. The Palazzo Ducale armoury in Venice has four examples. This is the earlier variant, the later ones having shorter blades.
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US machine gunners Bolo knife, 1917 model - American
This is the Bolo knife designed more as a tool than a combat weapon for the 'Doughboy' (slang name for US GIs in WW1) machine gunners in France. There is a maker's mark on the base of the blade, which appears to be double stamped, possibly Plumb. There is a scabbard maker's mark on the leather chape - something like Grauer 1918.
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Spike tomahawk head - British
This is a nice example of a Birmingham export belt axe/tomahawk head, almost certainly cast steel with some rudimentary attempt at polishing the front end of the blade. These were typical of what settlers may have carried in the West (US) and also the Indians.
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Mauser dress bayonet, model/Gew. 1898 - German
This is a private purchase example. The issue bayonet was made of steel throughout, with the exception of walnut grips, and normally had a leather scabbard with iron mounts. This all-steel scabbard is an issue example, the throat being stamped with a crown and the remains of a royal monogram underneath.
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