AN ITALIAN GUNNER'S STILETTO, the blade (pitted) of triangular section with baluster moulding at the base, one face with a numbered scale (mostly illegible), the hilt with brass quillons and pommel, and swelling cow-horn grip inlaid with brass nails between lines of twisted copper wire (some missing); and another, without scale, the hilt with writhen iron quillons and pommel, and spirally fluted horn grip studded with brass nails (wire binding missing), each 17th Century

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AN ITALIAN GUNNER'S STILETTO, the blade (pitted) of triangular section with baluster moulding at the base, one face with a numbered scale (mostly illegible), the hilt with brass quillons and pommel, and swelling cow-horn grip inlaid with brass nails between lines of twisted copper wire (some missing); and another, without scale, the hilt with writhen iron quillons and pommel, and spirally fluted horn grip studded with brass nails (wire binding missing), each 17th Century
14¼in. and 18½in. (2)

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