Halberd question
 

Hi, I picked this up yesterday. It was cheap, but you get what you pay for. I have serious doubts about this halberd. I have my doubts because where the point is attached to the blade(in the photo near my finger) is so oddly/roughly forged. The only thing I can think of is that it was reattached at some point. Is it a 19th-century copy or an original? It might be original, but has the handle ever been replaced? I have no idea.
Does anyone here know more about this?

some more pictures

It’s roughly forged that’s for sure but these things sometimes were. At least it doesn’t seem to have been moulded which is a good sign. Sometimes halberds were roughly produced in large numbers and then stored in armouries in case of future invasions. This could be such an example. An earlier post in this forum showed a halberd with an armoury mark on the pole from Switzerland. Other promising signs of originals are sharp tips on the spike and sharpened axe blade. If the halberd was made for Victorian decoration it would probably not have been sharpened for business.

Thanks for your reply, Victrix! Now that I see the photos here on the site, I think I see a worn-away mark in the second photo, diagonally above the five holes on the right side.

While out of my wheelhouse, it certainly looks like it is older than Victorian. Could this perhaps be an American halberd from the Rev War period? There were plenty of crude spontoons, halberds and linstocks made by the Continentals under stressed situations. Take a look at Neumann's 'Swords & Blades of the American Revolution' for similar examples.
Mark

It is very likely a halberd from southern Germany from the 16th century.
It is possible that the handle was added more recently. It is very beautiful.:)

Thank you all for your responses! I've found a very interesting article. The authors examined all the halberds in the Dutch Army Museum (131 examples) and classified them into types. Definitely worth reading for anyone interested in halberds. According to the article, the example I have is a subtype II.A-2.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full...1728905#d1e141

Thank you for posting link to interesting article. Didn’t see it before. The Waldman and Snook publications are the classics for halberds. If you search previous posts in this forum you should find the one with the Swiss halberd with the armoury mark on the pole.