EDGED WEAPONS
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A LEFT-HAND DAGGER, in excavated condition, with tapering blade of hollow diamond section inlaid on one face in copper with a maker's mark, flattened ricasso, and iron hilt with slender arched quillons swelling at the tips (side-ring missing), and globular pommel with button (blackened patination overall), circa 1600
Details
A LEFT-HAND DAGGER, in excavated condition, with tapering blade of hollow diamond section inlaid on one face in copper with a maker's mark, flattened ricasso, and iron hilt with slender arched quillons swelling at the tips (side-ring missing), and globular pommel with button (blackened patination overall), circa 1600
17in.
17in.
Provenance
Found in the river Thames at Billingsgate