Hello. Willhelm writing, my first post here. Was wondering if someone could help me out with what part of what century this weapon is from:

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Hmmmm, first of all that thing is probably of middle-eastern or Indian origin. It's really hard to determine the age of such things since the designs there hardly changed over time compared to the huge differences in the West.

Do you have more info on this piece? Where did you get it from? I'm no expert on oriental arms but that thing looks a bit like a fake. However, I could be wrong :)

is it wood or is the steel that color? looks liek an old tableleg ;) hehehe pretty neat anyways. i know late 15thc they had some hammers that looked something like that in europe but that is an extreme version i have never seen.

I would tend to agree with Wolfgang. If its legit it has an Indo-Persian feel to it which makes it some what hard to date as they were using this sort of thing up to the close of the 19th century. There was however a tradition for hammers of this sort (very long head overall although usually with a flat hammer head and a very long back spike and mostly set on a wooden haft even into the 17th century) in Poland/Lithuania. While i'm not sure about the head I think the haft is a replacement. So if it on the up and up 1) Indo-Perdian date ? 2) European maybe eastern 16th-17th century?. Maybe some one else can shead more light on it but any history you might have would help.

I'm not completely sure it is relevant but I have two turkish axes that exhibit the same sort of octagonal "eye" for the haft to go through and the same sort of haft as well. Their date: late 20th century.

There appears to be a weld in the top-right picture that seems highly suspect to me, where the hammer head connects with the socket... Of course, I'm no expert at welding (barely an amateur), so my claim can probably be shot down by someone more experienced.

I'd agree with the other statements about the Indo-Persian origin, but as for century I'm tempted to say 20th.

If I might ask where did you get this thing from?

Drat so much for being able to get a read from the provenance...

That's interesting Ruel, would you say that the same factors that precipitated the change in Western Arms (i.e. increasing complexity of defenses) also caused change in Eastern Arms?

Yes. It is from a swedish auction-site as said above, and i was curious of its origins because it looked quite unusual.

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