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Probably English, early XVIth century K 84, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris

Probably Burgundian, about 1480 Ex Meyrick and Noël Paton Collections Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Swiss, about 1560 Collection: Author

owned by King Henry IV of England. There is, however, the possibility that it might have originally belonged to the English crown; for it tallies very closely with the description of the only weapon resembling it which figures in the Greenwich inventory of 1542 (State Papers, Domestic, Henry VIII, 1542, fol. 64). On the first page is the following entry: "Item Oone pollaxe the head [p]tely gilt and at the hammer end having iij picks within the same a Roose gilt the staff garnished with crymson velloet fringed with red silke." In the 1547 inventory of Greenwich this pole-axe again