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Lot 262

A Rare Lowland-Scots Ballock Dagger
Dated 1618

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Lowland-Scots Ballock Dagger
Dated 1618

With slender tapering blade of stiff diamond section retaining traces etched of foliate decoration within double line borders on each flat below the ricasso, recessed rectangular ricasso etched with the date above a panel of foliage against a hatched ground on one side, and with a coat-of-arms on the other, and tapering polished root-boxwood (dudgeon) hilt (minor splits) of octagonal section, swelling at the domed top and with characteristic lobes (repaired) at the base, the former with domed brass tang button
22.9 cm. blade

Footnotes

This belongs to the well-known group of daggers many with inscribed blades, which are thought to be Lowland Scots, See C. Blair and J. Wallace, 'Scots - or Still English?', The Scottish Art Review, vol. 1. no. 9, 1963, pp. 11-15

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