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A Rare English Or Lowland Scots Left-Hand Dagger
Late 16th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Or Lowland Scots Left-Hand Dagger
Late 16th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade with sharp prominent medial ridge over its entire length on each side and recessed for the thumb at the base on one side, the lower half on each side retaining traces of etched panels and foliage, the former with indistinct inscription 'Strike And Spare Not', iron hilt comprising slender arched quillons with scallop shell terminals, small side-ring en suite and filled with a pierced plate, and conical vertically ribbed pommel (grip missing, worn and pitted overall)
30.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

The blade is of a form found on a group of daggers found in rivers in Britain among them a dagger in the British Museum dated 1593. See C. Blair, 'The Early Basket-Hilt in Britain' in D. Caldwell (ed.), Scottish Weapons and Fortifications, Edinburgh, 1981, pp. 229-33

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.