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LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN
Details
A left-hand dagger
Late 16th Century, probably German
With sharply tapering blade of flattened diamond section with rectangular ricasso etched with scrolling conventional foliage against a gilt ground and struck on one face with a bladesmith's mark, a letter 'P', the bright hilt comprising long straight quillons of octagonal section, widening slightly towards the flanged tips, pommel of double fleur-de-lys shape, and spirally fluted wooden grip bound with brass wire, in original tooled leather-covered wooden scabbard (repaired) incorporating a pocket for by-knives (missing) and with deep iron locket and chape, the ends each shaped as a fleur-de-lys pierced with a heart, the locket with a fixed belt loop, and the chape terminating in a turned button
15½in. (39.4cm.)
Late 16th Century, probably German
With sharply tapering blade of flattened diamond section with rectangular ricasso etched with scrolling conventional foliage against a gilt ground and struck on one face with a bladesmith's mark, a letter 'P', the bright hilt comprising long straight quillons of octagonal section, widening slightly towards the flanged tips, pommel of double fleur-de-lys shape, and spirally fluted wooden grip bound with brass wire, in original tooled leather-covered wooden scabbard (repaired) incorporating a pocket for by-knives (missing) and with deep iron locket and chape, the ends each shaped as a fleur-de-lys pierced with a heart, the locket with a fixed belt loop, and the chape terminating in a turned button
15½in. (39.4cm.)
Provenance
Mention & Wagner Collection, Paris 19 March, 1838, lot 168
Literature
F.H. Cripps-Day, Armour Sales, 1925, pl. XLIII, Fig. b
Exhibited
Wilmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April 1962, No. 46