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19TH CENTURY
Details
AN ITALIAN EXPANDING LEFT-HAND DAGGER, IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE
19th Century
With slender blade of rectangular section tapering to a narrow stiff-diamond point, fitted with a pair of pivoted side-prongs of triangular section moving on a spring action released by a sliding catch at the ricasso, gilt-iron hilt cast in low relief, involving grotesques, monsters and soldiers within panels of scrollwork, and grip bound with patterned wire.
18¼in (46.4cm)
19
With slender blade of rectangular section tapering to a narrow stiff-diamond point, fitted with a pair of pivoted side-prongs of triangular section moving on a spring action released by a sliding catch at the ricasso, gilt-iron hilt cast in low relief, involving grotesques, monsters and soldiers within panels of scrollwork, and grip bound with patterned wire.
18¼
Provenance
Clapp and Graham, New York, 1925
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium