Polearm - European, Indo-Persian?

[FenrisWolf]

Originally Posted by G. McCormack

If I had to guess, I would say Chinese based on the diamond shaped filing decoration near the ricasso. I could be way off base though. You say it has a forged socket?

I hadn't even consider China as a possibility. There were other polearms for sale at the same time, and some were really odd ducks.

Yes, as near as I can tell the socket is forged. No visible forging marks, but it's too thin for a casting, vary nicely finished.