Boarding axe.... in "Storia dell'arma bianca italiana" - Cesare Calamandre.
 

Hi all, even Jim's extensive library could not help so I'm repeating my request for anyone with a copy of:

Storia dell'arma bianca italiana: Da Waterlo al nuovo millennio, by Cesare Calamandre

to let me know so that I can check a reference to an Italian Boarding axe. I have a picture so it may not be necessary to translate from the Italian as well.
Thanks, CC.

ps: Mark, I have sent you a pm.

C'mon guys, the gauntlet has been thrown down.....even the bookmobile couldnt get this one :) There must be somebody out there with this reference.

Hello David. Sorry I missed your earlier PM. I have posted a message for you. Thanks! Sorry I don't have the reference you mentioned.
Mark

I have that book. What exactly are you looking for? I don't understand your question.

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for responding - I have sent you a pm with the details.
Regards,

CC

I misread your post, I thought you wrote that you had the picture of the Italian axe from the Calamandrei book...so here it is.

Many thanks, Dmitry.
That's exactly what I needed.

Thank you.
Regards, CC.

No problem. Glad to have been helpful.

I had an axe similar to that one construction-wise.
The head was a little bigger than the axes in Boarders Away.
I have seen them described on the internets as WWI Italian army corps of engineers axes or trench-making picks and such.