Help finding details about Graz Armory Polearm
Feb 5, 2022 0:12:34 GMT
Post by tuthmose on Feb 5, 2022 0:12:34 GMT
Greetings all!
I’m working on commissioning a recreation of a rare type of polearm, and could use some assistance.
The fact that the head is about 2 feet long is all I have been able to find in the way of published data. I saw them myself 25 years ago when I was there, but sadly a return trip to Austria to get more info isn’t in the cards. I’ve written the Armory (in German, no less), but have received no reply at all after a month.
I’m working on commissioning a recreation of a rare type of polearm, and could use some assistance.
The polearm, so far as I know, is only found at the Graz Armory, although they themselves have a number of them. Their inventory apparently lists is as a “Gusy” (a corruption of Kuse/Couse?), though it is more glaive-like than anything else. It is the center item in the image from Peter Krenn’s “Schwert und Spiess” below.
John Waldman mentioned it specifically in his “Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe”:
Apparently most if not all of the examples in the Graz Armory were the work of Peter Schreckeisen of Waldneukirchen in Upper Austria in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Here is the rack of them at the Armory
The fact that the head is about 2 feet long is all I have been able to find in the way of published data. I saw them myself 25 years ago when I was there, but sadly a return trip to Austria to get more info isn’t in the cards. I’ve written the Armory (in German, no less), but have received no reply at all after a month.
Long-story short, if anybody has more information on these, I’d love to have it. Length of the cutting edges, thickness at the medial ridge, diameter of the pole socket, thickness of the back-spike, etc. Even any good photographs that anybody who has been there might have would still be a great help. I really need to determine what, if any, distal taper they exhibit. I realize this is extremely esoteric and specific, but if anybody has any insight they’d care to share, or could direct me to someplace for further research, I would deeply appreciate it!
-Ron