Original European Executioner Beheading Axe Circa 1550-1700 Japanese Awards Medals Badges Insignia WW2 military item used by

WW2 military item used by paratroops

Now eminently suitable for adding British WW2 Divisional and Regimental decals (Offered separately)

Full native hardwood stock with brass mounts including a hook butt plate

More of a multi-tool then just an axe it can be used as cutting tool

The dirk has a 14" curved blade and is 20" in overall length

Original European Executioner Beheading Axe Circa 1550-1700 Japanese Awards Medals Badges Insignia WW2 military item used byOriginal Item: Only One Available. An Axe is a tool, there are many types of axes for many different jobs. The market is awash with modern reproduction Executioner's Axes but 99% are based on pure fantasy. Many original medieval axes were purpose made for specialized purposes but today are passed off as for severing heads. In the fourteen hundred beheading was the traditional death sentence, whereas Nobility were dispatched using a sword, most notably