A SPANISH LEFT-HAND DAGGER with tapering single-edged blade double-edged towards the point, the back of the forte cusped and notched, the broad ricasso decorated en suite, pierced for sword breaking, hollowed for the thumb and struck on each face with a mark (rubbed), the hilt comprising triangular hand-guard with boldly turned edges, slender straight trumpet-shaped quillons of circular section, compressed button pommel, and wooden grip bound with wire (incomplete) and set with knurled iron strips, late 17th Century

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A SPANISH LEFT-HAND DAGGER with tapering single-edged blade double-edged towards the point, the back of the forte cusped and notched, the broad ricasso decorated en suite, pierced for sword breaking, hollowed for the thumb and struck on each face with a mark (rubbed), the hilt comprising triangular hand-guard with boldly turned edges, slender straight trumpet-shaped quillons of circular section, compressed button pommel, and wooden grip bound with wire (incomplete) and set with knurled iron strips, late 17th Century
22½in.

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