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Fig. 902. Spetum
About 1480. Collection: the late Sir Noël Paton, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
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Fig. 903. Spetum
Italian, about 1530 K 514, Musée d'Artillerie, Paris
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Fig. 904. Spetum
Italian, about 1530 Wallace Collection (Laking Catalogue, No. 339)
lateral blades. Thus the earlier type of this hafted weapon has lateral blades of smaller dimensions; while the general formation of the weapon's head is stouter in section (Fig. 902), as we see in the example dating from about 1480 which is chosen from the collection of the late Sir Noël Paton. Semi-barbaric weapons of this kind are found in the arsenals of Poland and Hungary; while a pole-arm very much of the same type could be met with in China within comparatively recent times. Of the XVIth century spetums, the final development of this kind of hafted weapon, we illustrate two, one in the Musée d'Artillerie, Paris, K 514 (Fig. 903)—Italian, first half of the XVIth century—and another (Fig. 904), in the Wallace Collection (No. 339),