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Summary
Figures 757-764 Source:Illustrated Catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy: by Elia Volpi, Horace Townsand and Cesare A. Guglielmetti (1916)

757—2 Seventeenth Century Spanish Halberds Heads with long leaf-shaped blades with crescent-shaped hooks, richly engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms on the other with a monogram. Shafts thickly studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 758—Sixteenth Century Italian Processional Halberd Head with pierced crescent-shaped blade, pierced crow's bill and long tapering point with a wrought rosetted knop. Shaft covered in red silk studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 759—Sixteenth Century Italian Halberd Head with pierced crescent-shaped blade, pierced crow's bill, and extremely long octagonal point, showing traces of chased and gilded ornamentation. Octagonal wooden shaft studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 760—Sixteenth Century Italian Processional Halberd Head with square tongue-shaped point, pierced crescent blade and pierced carved crow's bill. The cylindrical shaft is covered with red velvet spirally studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 761—Sixteenth Century Italian Processional Halberd Head with square tongue-shaped point, pierced crescent blade and pierced carved crow's bill. The cylindrical shaft is covered with red velvet spirally studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 762—Part Of A Sixteenth Century Italian Suit Of Armor Consisting of a helmet, pauldrons, rerebraces and a breast-plate, The helmet is of the "pot" type with comb, adjustable free-guard in front and "lobster-tail" neck-guard at back. The pauldrons are studded with brass-headed rivets, the rerebraces are jointed and the breast-plate is richly engraved and gilded with a scrolled design of a mask surrounded by scrolled foliage. (Illustrated) 763—Head with pierced crescent-shaped blade and straight crow's bill Cylindrical shaft covered with red velvet studded with brass-headed nails. (Illustrated) 764—Sixteenth Century Italian Steel Buckler Or Shield Circular shape, decorated with an engraved broad border of scrolled foliage design around the rim, the center being occupied with a design of fourteen radiating compartments alternately plain and decorated with an engraved patterning of scrolled foliage. The central spike has a raised base of acanthus-leaf design. (Illustrated)