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Old 3rd June 2012, 10:29 AM   #1
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It measures 70 cm long, it has four sections

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Old 4th June 2012, 12:56 AM   #2
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A very nice pike? Or lance. Can we see the other end of the pole? How long is the shaft? The four-sided point pattern usually indicates the late 18th/early 19th century. This dating also supported by the type of securing screw through the shaft. If the shaft is short, perhaps a boarding pike (military pikes long gone by this time), if a longer pole would indicate a lance, which were still used up to the end of the 19th c.
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Old 4th June 2012, 01:31 AM   #3
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Hmmm...the more I look at it, I think the point is too long to be a pike. Lance would be a better fit. Depending in the other end of the shaft (butt cap? Blunt flat wood? Rounded wood butt?), it could be Spanish, British Lancers??
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Old 4th June 2012, 06:53 AM   #4
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the handle measuring 1 m 40, but I don't know if it is the original?
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Old 4th June 2012, 12:25 PM   #5
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It would appear to be intended almost wholly as armour piercing, mail or plate, a bodkin point, except perhaps taken to the extreme in this instance. I would suggest that it predates the 18th century.
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