Lot Essay
The ballock daggers: Comparative literature: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the end of the Middle Ages, New York, 1975, p.83, ill. no. 91
COMPREHENSIVELY 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF TEN AGED WEAPONS IN EXCAVATED CONDITION
COMPREHENSIVELY 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY
Comprising a long rondel dagger with slender blade, iron rondel guard, compressed domed pommel and retaining its original wooden grips, two ballock daggers, each retaining the original carved wooden hilt, another with later hilt, the grips and pommel from a cinquedia dagger, three military spear heads, a small knife, and the head of a whaling harpoon
the first 53.5 cm. (10)
COMPREHENSIVELY 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY
Comprising a long rondel dagger with slender blade, iron rondel guard, compressed domed pommel and retaining its original wooden grips, two ballock daggers, each retaining the original carved wooden hilt, another with later hilt, the grips and pommel from a cinquedia dagger, three military spear heads, a small knife, and the head of a whaling harpoon
the first 53.5 cm. (10)
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