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17TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN GUNNER'S STILETTO
17th Century
With slender tapering blade of stiff diamond section engraved on the inner face with a numbered scale for calibration, the remaining two faces engraved with a running leaf design (rubbed), turned ricasso, chiselled hilt with short acorn-shaped quillons, the pommel en suite and three-stage writhen grip.
9½in (24.2cm) blade
17
With slender tapering blade of stiff diamond section engraved on the inner face with a numbered scale for calibration, the remaining two faces engraved with a running leaf design (rubbed), turned ricasso, chiselled hilt with short acorn-shaped quillons, the pommel en suite and three-stage writhen grip.
9½
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