13th-14th century AD. A Mazovian or Teutonic Order war axe, hand-forged with rectangular-section socket and expanding bearded blade; a maker's mark of a crescent to one side of the blade and an openwork three-lobed flower tapering towards the blade; three notches on the upper part of the socket. See Glosek, M., Pó?no?redniowieczna bro? obuchowa w zbiorach polskich, Warszawa-?ód?, 1996, pl.VIII, especially lett.C. 722 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a London binessman, from his grandfather's collection formed after World War II; thence by descent 1972. This typology of axes (type Ig of the Glosek classification) was in e in the whole of Europe in the 13th-14th century and in modern times. The notches on the surface of the axe in some specimens excluded their e for driving nails. This axe in particular finds analogy with an axe from Czersk, dated to the 13th-14th century AD, found during the archaeological excavations of the castle. [No Reserve]