86 CENTRAL EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE BRONZE CEREMONIAL PICK AXE with a ball-peen terminus and decorated with groove designs. Fine olive-green patina. Probably from the Carpathian area, mid-2nd Millennium BC. L. 10 in. (25.5 cm.) Cf. M. Novotna, ‘The Axes and Hatchets in Slovakia’, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, IX 3, 1970, p. 53 type B, pl. 19.344f. Ex German collection. 87 CENTRAL EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE BRONZE CEREMONIAL PICK AXE decorated with groove designs. Fine olive-green patina. Probably from the Carpathian area, mid-2nd Millennium BC. L. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) Cf: M. Novotna, ‘The Axes and Hatchets in Slovakia’, Prähistorische Bronzefunde, IX 3, 1970, p. 53 type B, pl. 19.344f. Ex German collection. 88 EUROPEAN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE BRONZE PICK AXE with tapering blade and disc peen. 2nd Millennium BC. L. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) Ex collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, acquired in Munich in 1992. Published: H. Spring and S. Hansen, Helmets and Weapons Alteuropas, Collection Axel Guttmann, vol. 9, Mainz, 2001, p.142, fig. 114, 276.
89 EUROPEAN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE BRONZE PICK AXE with tapering blade and pointed disc peen. 2nd Millennium BC. L. 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) Ex collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, acquired in Munich in 1992. Published: H. Spring and S. Hansen, Helmets and Weapons Alteuropas, Collection Axel Guttmann, vol. 9, Mainz, 2001, p. 142, fig. 114, 276.
90 EUROPEAN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE BRONZE PICK AXE with tapering blade and pointed disc peen. 2nd Millennium BC. L. 6 1/2 in. (16.7 cm.) Ex collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, acquired in Munich in 1992. Published: H. Spring and S. Hansen, Helmets and Weapons Alteuropas, Collection Axel Guttmann, vol. 9, Mainz, 2001, p 142, fig. 114, 276.
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