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A GERMAN HORSEMAN'S HAMMER OR STREITHÄMMER, image 1
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Lot 1002

A GERMAN HORSEMAN'S HAMMER OR STREITHÄMMER,
c. 1600.

1 – 10 April 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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A GERMAN HORSEMAN'S HAMMER OR STREITHÄMMER,
c. 1600.

The head with round striking surface and long curved spike on a tapering iron haft with twisted wire grip.
Overall lg. 21 3/8 in.

Footnotes

Provenance
Sotheby's Arms & Armour auction, July 10, 2002, Lot 196.

Note
German horseman hammers of this type are generally associated with the former Saxon armories in Dresden and a number of nearly identical examples have been sold from that collection. These hammers were carried by armored cavalry for close-quarter combat.

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