Axe
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
metal, wood
Measurements
140 mm (Width); 740 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Myanmar (Burma)
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 637489
Summary
Myanmar (formerly Burma) Axe with curved head and fan shaped blade. The head cast and painted black and red. Octagonal head fits onto shaft with turned wooden handle,painted in bands of red, green, yellow and black. Tear-shaped terminal. Given to the Field Marshal in Myanmar (formerly Burma) see also GUN/Misc/2 and GUN/T/33
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.