AN ITALIAN ALL-STEEL STILETTO with blade of stiff diamond section and moulded ricasso, the hilt with deeply fluted stellate quillons, pommel en suite, and spirally fluted baluster grip (pitted throughout), mid-17th Century; and a dagger with double-edged fluted blade cut down from a sword-blade (point chipped and bent) with ricasso decorated with pointillé foliage, short quillons with grooved ball terminals, later ovoidal pommel encircled by a notched rib, and wire-bound wooden grip, mid-16th Century