Info Favorites Register Log in
myArmoury.com Discussion Forums

Forum index Memberlist Usergroups Spotlight Topics Search
Forum Index > Historical Arms Talk > Interesting Poleaxe/Halberd Love-Child Reply to topic
This is a standard topic  
Author Message
Colt Reeves





Joined: 09 Mar 2009

Posts: 466

PostPosted: Sat 15 Oct, 2011 2:25 am    Post subject: Interesting Poleaxe/Halberd Love-Child         Reply with quote

Instead of going to bed like I should, I was just wandering through Kult of Athena's website contemplating the idea of buying a cheap single hand warhammer and mounting it as a poleaxe, with langets and some spikes. I had a particular liking for Windlass's 17th Century Warhammer here: http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=...War+Hammer

Of course, I couldn't recall any actual examples that look like that, so I thought I'd look through myArmoury.com's Albums section. (Yes, there is more to this place than the forums. Wink ) Then I thought Eh, there isn't going to be anything like that... But I'll look anyway, it's good for me.

Okey-doke, typical poleaxe with spikes, mace, warhammer... Well, what have we here? Hello beautiful. You look like the love-child of a poleaxe and halberd: http://www.myArmoury.com/albums/photo/2017.html


Seriously, that's what it looks like. Looks like a halberd with a poleaxe's beak and hammer-head.

Does anyone have any information on this piece? The entry is a little vague, all it says is the picture is from Hermann Historica. It seems a little unique and unique is frequently interesting. I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen anything similar...

"Tears are for the craven, prayers are for the clown.
Halters for the silly neck that cannot keep a crown.
As my loss is grievous, so my hope is small.
For Iron, Cold Iron, must be master of men all..."
-Cold Iron, Rudyard Kipling
View user's profile Send private message
Gregg Sobocinski




Location: Michigan
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
Likes: 5 pages
Reading list: 12 books

Posts: 170

PostPosted: Sat 15 Oct, 2011 7:38 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

You probably want to do a search on "Lucerne hammer". It's made differently from a war hammer/bec de corbin, but the result is equally useful.
View user's profile Send private message


Display posts from previous:   
Forum Index > Historical Arms Talk > Interesting Poleaxe/Halberd Love-Child
Page 1 of 1 Reply to topic
All times are GMT - 8 Hours

View previous topic :: View next topic
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum






All contents © Copyright 2003-2024 myArmoury.com — All rights reserved
Discussion forums powered by phpBB © The phpBB Group
Switch to the Basic Low-bandwidth Version of the forum