Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

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]