Originals Gallery

Miner's Style Axe



This type of fighting axe would come to be known as a miner's axe due to its resemblance to the mining implement and it use in a highly decorated form in the late 16th and 17th centuries as a symbol of the mining guilds. This later 15th or early 16th century fighting example has seen some use. The very tip of the blade (perhaps 1/4 inch) is broken off.