Original Medieval-Style European Executioner's Beheading Axe - Type used from c.1000 to c.1750 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets just leather covers over wood

just leather covers over wood for both the handle (tsuka) and the scabbard (saya)

which were often broken off

Features all matching serial numbers of 13427 and is in fine working order and condition

has leather reinforced hang side corners with ties and is in close to excellent condition

a modernized version of the M1940 was developed and adopted in 1963 as the M1940-63

Original Medieval-Style European Executioner's Beheading Axe - Type used from c.1000 to c.1750 Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets just leather covers over woodOriginal Item: Only One Available. An Axe is a tool, there are many types of axes for many different jobs. The market is awash with modern reproduction Executioner's Axes but 99% are based on pure fantasy. Many original medieval axes were purpose made for specialized purposes but today are passed off as for severing heads. In the fourteen hundreds, beheading was the traditional death sentence, whereas Nobility were dispatched using a sword, most