17 TH CENTURY SAMURAI HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE NOT SWORD C 1700

17 TH CENTURY SAMURAI HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE NOT SWORD C 1700

$675.00
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PRESERVING HISTORY, 17 TH or 18TH CENTURY JAPANESE HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE, WARPICK, SIMILAR TO THE EUROPEAN WAR HAMMER, IT HAS AN OLD JAPANESE MUSEUM LABEL, FROM THE IMPORTANT MUSEUM LIKE COLLECTION OF FREDERICK COLUZZI. THIS WAS BROUGHT BACK BY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER DURING WAR WAR II. ONE THE SAMURAI'S PREFFERED FIGHTING WEAPONS. THIS ONE IS AN EARLY ONE DATING FROM AROUND 1700. IT HAD ITS PLACE IN MARTIAL ARTS AND IT IS A SAMURAI FORGOTTEN WEAPON, ALSO USED BY FIREFIGHTERS TO KNOCK DOWN AND CLIME WALLS. WHEN YOU BUY THE BEST YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO MAKE EXCUSES LATER. Kama (鎌) or the Tobiguchi (鳶口) although they share some similar features; the Kama has a blade rather than a spike, and the Tobiguchi, besides being also a tool that could be "weaponized", has a shorter beak and a top spike. However, the "boundaries" in the nomenclature are rather slim; sometimes, a Tobiguchi could and is considered a warpick, and in some example of the famous Kusari-gama, ther

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