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Lot Essay
For a dagger with a steel-mounted hilt of very similar form, dating from the second quarter of the 16th Century, see Wallace Collection inv. no. A 812
Details
A Dagger Of Landsknecht Type
With robust slightly hollow tapering single-edged blade (minor pitting) painted with red collection numbers at the forte, gilt-brass hilt (gilding slightly rubbed) comprising short slightly arched quillons with mushroom-shaped finials each decorated with radiating gadrooning, pommel en suite, and one-piece ebony grip of compressed triangular cushions heightened at each corner with a small brass ring and with turned gilt-brass ferrule at the top and bottom (grip with minor chips and cracks, bottom ferrule split)
137/8in. (35.2cm.)
With robust slightly hollow tapering single-edged blade (minor pitting) painted with red collection numbers at the forte, gilt-brass hilt (gilding slightly rubbed) comprising short slightly arched quillons with mushroom-shaped finials each decorated with radiating gadrooning, pommel en suite, and one-piece ebony grip of compressed triangular cushions heightened at each corner with a small brass ring and with turned gilt-brass ferrule at the top and bottom (grip with minor chips and cracks, bottom ferrule split)
137/8in. (35.2cm.)
Special notice
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