This is an EXCEEDINGLY RARE & 100% GENUINE (& ACTUAL!) early British Royal Navy FIRST Pattern TOMAHAWK Boarding Axe

Probably the ONLY example here in NZ 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

Many (MOST!) alleged British Royal Navy TOMAHAWK Boarding Axes are NOT what they are claimed to be

Usually they ARE misidentified Fireman's Axes ALLWAYS offered at usurious prices, despite not even BEING what they are claimed to be

This ancient BATTLE AXE is in PRISTINE (Sympathetically Restored) MUSEUM GRADE CONDITION

Especially for a 200-year-old Ferrous Steel artifact, that likely saw much SEA SERVICE & was probably was used in action on more than one occasion?

The wrist rope is a replacement, exactly as it should be on the originally-issued axe

The "B.O." (Board of Ordnance) stamped Oak Wood handle is original to the Axe

The Steel Blade, its Tang, & Copper rivets are all ORIGINAL

There is a COLLECTION # beneath the Spike, seen near the "B.O." stamp in the Oak Handle, that C.P.O. John Carter applied & It is part of this ULTRA RARE & 100% GENUINE antique weapon's provenance

PROVENANCE

Ex-the private collection of Mr John Carter, former CURATOR of the Royal New Zealand NAVY MUSEUM, Torpedo Bay, Devonport, Auckland

Mr Carter (NZ's leading EXPERT on Naval Militaria) owned the finest collection of antique Naval Militaria ever assembled in NZ (His collection recently broken-up & sold)

The first time this BATTLE AXE has been on the open market in many many decades

Image # 13 is a COMPARISON of the MUCH LATER 1859 model & the 1st Patt Battle of Trafalgar era Tomahawk

Images # 14, 15, & 16 are of "NOT Boarding Axes" (fakes)

NO reserve

NO Buy it Now

Perhaps the EARLIEST PATTERN of "Fighting Knife"?