War Hammer or Pollaxe

Inscription: Inscribed on the brass side straps: IHESVS AVTEM TRANSIENS PERMEDIVM ILLORVM IBAT AMEN (But Jesus passing through their midst went his way. - John 8:59); SO MAN ALIR DING GELT SO IST RETHT VON DAS BEST (If the claims are valid, the justice[resulting] from them is the best).

Albert Denison, 1st Lord Londesborough, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England (until d. 1860; by descent to his son, the 1st Earl of Londesborough); William Henry Forester Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England (1860–88; Armour and Arms . . . of the Right Hon. Earl of Londesborough, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 4–6, 9–11, 1888, no. 82, “Martel de Fer, with bec de faucon, and octagonal shaft chased with a coat-of-arms, and with brass sides engraved with figures under Gothic canopies, and inscription–15th century,” sold, for £40, to Harding); [G.R. Harding, London, 1888; sold July 9, 1888, for £50, to Riggs]; William H. Riggs, Paris (1888–1913; his gift to MMA).

Christie, Manson & Woods. Collection of Armour and Arms, Carvings in Ivory. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, July 4–6 and July 9–11, 1888. no. 82.

Jaquet, Daniel. "Hans Talhoffer’s Fight Book, a Sixteenth-Century Manuscript about the Art of Fighting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (2018), http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fight/hd_fight.htm (August 2018). ill.