The Household Cavalry Museum and Shop - The Farrier's Axe Farriers ride on every major parade where they carry highly polished axes. The spike on these was to administer the last rites
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Medieval Cavalry Battle Axe Giving Chase Horseback Stock Illustration - Illustration of brown, hero: 36663671
![Sold at Auction: An unusual 17th Century German horseman's axe, the steel head with curved blade engraved with shell ornament, and with cavalry pick to opposite, on turned wood shaft, 27ins high Sold at Auction: An unusual 17th Century German horseman's axe, the steel head with curved blade engraved with shell ornament, and with cavalry pick to opposite, on turned wood shaft, 27ins high](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Canterbury/29/592129/H0298-L99759406.jpg)