Medals & Coins, Arms & Militaria - 21 Nov 2018
The collection of Great War trench clubs featured on the BBC documentary series 'Sword
The collection of Great War trench clubs featured on the BBC documentary series 'Sword, Musket and Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History': A British example, being a wooden club with tapered handle, fitted with fifteen ammunition boot studs in five rows, 18.5 in.; another British weapon having a flanged cast iron head, friction fitted to an entrenching tool handle; a French mace fashioned from the shell of a Foug hand grenade with a wooden grip, 32 cm; a German mace with a studded cast iron head fitted to a stielhandgranate handle; and another example thought to be German, spiked cast iron ball united to the wooden handle by a short length of chain. [5]