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- Parrying dagger
- Unknown Artist / Maker
- c. 1600
- Steel, gold and silver, russeted, encrusted, fire-gilt
- Length: 27.1 cm
Length: 16.9 cm, blade
Width: 1.4 cm, blade at guard
Weight: 0.134 kg
Width: 7.8 cm, guard - A773
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- Small parrying dagger, composed of a spherical pommel with flattened button; ribbed, wire-bound grip; curved guard of flattened section widening at the ends, and single-side-ring, decorated with rosettes and lines of dots encrusted in silver on a russeted ground; blade of diamond section, sharply ridged, fluted and pieced, the ricasso flattened on one side.
The steel ground of the hilt was originally entirely fire-gilt.
About 1600; nationality uncertain.
Provenance: ? A. Beurdeley (une dague poignée damasquinée argent lame repercée à jour, together with une mandoline, 900 fr.; receipted bill, 22 November, 1866); Comte de Nieuwerkerke (this description might also refer to A800).
- Small parrying dagger, composed of a spherical pommel with flattened button; ribbed, wire-bound grip; curved guard of flattened section widening at the ends, and single-side-ring, decorated with rosettes and lines of dots encrusted in silver on a russeted ground; blade of diamond section, sharply ridged, fluted and pieced, the ricasso flattened on one side.
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