Mysore axe

18th century

Overall length
107 cm

Blade size
40,8 cm (4 mm thickness)

Materials
steel, iron

Dating
porbably Mysore, Karnataka, 18th C.

A very rare South Indian axe with crescentic axe-blade rising to a further smaller blade with reinforced tip and a leaf-shaped terminal spike, engraved along the back-edge with foliage and linear ornament, five-sided socket chiselled with a leaf at the base of the blade, and a later wooden haft, 40.8 cm head. Very good condition.

18th century, probably Mysore, Karnataka

Provenance: Roy Elvis Collection

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