It’s roughly forged that’s for sure but these things sometimes were. At least it doesn’t seem to have been moulded which is a good sign. Sometimes halberds were roughly produced in large numbers and then stored in armouries in case of future invasions. This could be such an example. An earlier post in this forum showed a halberd with an armoury mark on the pole from Switzerland. Other promising signs of originals are sharp tips on the spike and sharpened axe blade. If the halberd was made for Victorian decoration it would probably not have been sharpened for business.
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