A SPANISH LEFT-HAND DAGGER with sharply tapering blade of stiff square section, the broad ricasso with thumb-recess, pierced with three holes for sword-breaking, decorated with punched and incised decoration, and struck on each face with a mark, the hilt comprising a triangular hand-guard with turned edge, a small floral guardapolvo on the inside, slender quillons each with turned button finial, faceted globular pommel, and plain wooden grip, late 17th Century