Original Indo-Persian Battle Axe Tabar Relic Head & Pike with Replaced Shaft German Flags The metalwork has the blued

The metalwork has the blued areas faded to a nice polished gray patina

so shorter guns like this were perfect

He was the son of Carl Reinhard Kirschbaum

indicating manufacture at Toyokawa Naval Arsenal (豊川海軍工廠

The number 1513 is also scratched into the rubber exterior which is correct for serial numbers 1000-1999

Original Indo-Persian Battle Axe Tabar Relic Head & Pike with Replaced Shaft German Flags The metalwork has the bluedOriginal Item: Only One Available. The tabar (also called tabarzin, which means "saddle axe") is a type of battle axe. The term tabar is used for axes originating from the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Armenia, India and surrounding countries and cultures. As a loanword taken through Iranian Scythian, the word tabar is also used in most Slavic languages as the word for axe. The tabarzin (saddle axe) (Persian: ; sometimes translated "saddle hatchet") is the