Ultra RARE BOARDING AXE British Royal Navy NAPOLEONIC era TOMAHAWK 1st Pattern

Description: I am now the proud owner of this extremely RARE and 100% guaranteed GENUINE (and ACTUAL!!) early British Royal Navy FIRST Pattern TOMAHAWK Boarding Axe Many (MOST!) alleged British Royal Navy TOMAHAWK Boarding Axes are NOT what they are claimed to be, they are usually misidentified Fireman's Axes, always offered at usurious prices, despite not even being what they are claimed to be🙁 CONDITION = FOR a 200 year old Ferrous Steel artifact?, that likely saw much SEA SERVICE and probably was used in action on more than one occasion? This ancient BATTLE AXE is in PRISTINE (Sympathetically Restored) MUSEUM GRADE CONDITION. The wrist rope is an obvious replacement, likely exactly as it should have been on the original issued axe The "B.O." (Board of Ordnance) stamped Oak Wood handle is original to the Axe. The Steel Blade, its Tang, and Copper rivets are all 100% ORIGINAL. There is a COLLECTION NUMBER beneath the Spike seen near the "B.O." stamp in the Oak Handle, that C.P.O. John Carter applied This has been left there, as it is part of this ULTRA RARE & 100% GENUINE antique weapon's provenance Exactly as seen in my close up images which ARE the most IMPORTANT PART of my item's condition description, so do please review all images before bidding PROVENANCE Ex-the private collection of Mr John Carter, former CURATOR of the Royal New Zealand NAVY MUSEUM, Torpedo Bay, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand Mr Carter (New Zealand's leading EXPERT on Naval Militaria) owned the finest collection of antique Naval Militaria ever assembled in New Zealand, (that collection was recently broken-up) The first time this BATTLE AXE has been on the market an many many decades There is ONLY ONE so don't miss it WE CAN ship this to the United Kingdom😉 Dating from the great age of fighting sailing ships PIRATES Pieces of Eight buccaneer freebooter corsair rover adventurer raider marauder privateer picaroon filibuster marooner swashbuckler Variously known internationally as Hache d’abordage, Enterbijl, Entrebil, Änterbila, Entrebile, Hachas de Abordaje This is an EXCEEDINGLY RARE and 100% GENUINE First Pattern Battle of Trafalgar era Boarding Axe The ONLY example ever known to exist here in New Zealand My image # 13 is a COMPARISON of the MUCH LATER 1859 model and the 1st Pattern (Battle of Trafalgar era) Tomahawk. The images # 14, 15, & 16 are of "NOT BOARDING AXES" I have borrowed the awesome information (copied below) from the above website devoted to these ICONIC collector's items from the bygone age of Sailing Ships. https://www.boardingaxe.com/british.html The page ALSO has a link to a full page of "NOT Boarding Axes" = MOST RECOMMENDED reading! https://www.boardingaxe.com/notboardingaxes.html Nice looking items......but they are *NOT the Real McCoy* DESPITE their usurious pricing🤑🙁 HISTORY of the British Royal Navy Battle Axe TOMAHAWK Boarding Axe The British Boarding Axe is notable for the fact that there was only one pattern for almost the entire age of fighting sail. This was the tomahawk which remained essentially the same until it was replaced in 1859 REPLACED by the more robust flared blade model, although by that time the nature of boarding actions was rapidly changing. Gilkerson identifies the oldest known dateable axe to one excavated at Crown Point, New York - the fort on this site being a naval base in the mid 1700s which was burned down in 1773. The axe in question being excavated from the site of the fire. Throughout its long life this axe retained its flattish cross-section and side langets which made manufacture relatively easy especially in poorly equipped workshops around the world, some of which produced very crude examples. It not known when the word tomahawk came into British military terminology but contact and combat with Native Americans clearly had an effect on the weapons carried in that region. Ffoulkes notes that War Office records state that ‘the Ordnance issued 300 Tommihawks in 1761 to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Americans’ and it also records that the 22nd Regiment adopted it as a standard sidearm in 1784. The navy adopted the term into everyday use and although referred to as a ‘pole axe’ officially, the name tomahawk was commonly used in ships’ manifests, journals and accounts and presumably in the sailors’ parlance of the day. Considering that boarding axes were produced in their thousands and were carried in a ratio of at least one axe per gun very few survived the demise of the sailing ship and the British tomahawk pattern is rare today. Some of the remaining examples do not carry a makers name although they are often marked with the B.O and broad arrow mark of the Board of Ordnance. The lack of different patterns over the years means that it is difficult to date early axes and other than the Crown Point axe there is no solid evidence so far to date an axe to an earlier time. General Measurements: Although there is as yet no identified government specification for these axes, most that have been measured are made to very similar dimensions The axe was made from two 1/4” iron plates hammer forged together to form the 1/2” thick head and hammered out to shape the blade, spike and langets. A steel bar was inserted to form the blade edge. The overall length with original haft is between 24 - 25” (61 - 64 cm). The blade edge to the point of the spike is generally between 8 - 9” (20 -23 cm) with some rare examples smaller at 7.5”. The cutting edge of the blade is 2.75 - 3” (7 - 7.6 cm). The spike is normally 3.5” (8.9 cm) or above and this holds true even on those axes with the smaller head. The length of the langets are between 5 - 5.5” (12.7 - 14 cm). The weight with an original haft is just over 2 lbs (910g) Note: The scarcity of these axes mean that the sample size is small. 17 axes measured to date (2019) Do please VIEW my ***26 + years *** FEEDBACK selling history on E-Bay !! Any questions please message me Postage First Class Air Mail (6-10 DAYS) New Zealand residents FREE NZPO Courier delivery, but SORRY but you pay GST @15% on purchase price as WE MUST PAY GST on all locally-delivered item sales :-( Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter Add a map to your own listings. FREE Trial !

Price: 2200 USD

Location: Auckland (aprox. 12,000 "clicks" from USA)

End Time: 2024-11-18T03:30:01.000Z

Shipping Cost: 88.9 USD