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Lot 88*
A Saxon Left-Hand DaggerLate 16th Century
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,760 inc. premium
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Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
With robust tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to diamond section at the point and with a central fuller over most of its length on each side extending from the fluted ricasso, hilt of blackened iron comprising short slightly downbent gourd-shaped quillons and small side-ring, the latter with central swelling, compressed globular pommel of octagonal section engraved with pairs of vertical line at the angles, original fishskin-covered wooden grip with slender longitudinal reinforcing-strips retained by cusped ferrules above and below, and retaining much of its original blackened finish
27.9 cm. blade
27.9 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden
Sotheby's London, The Visser Collection, Fine, Rare and Important Arms, Part I, 3 July 1990, lot 90
Literature:
Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, 1982, p. 199, no. 580
Possibly one of the daggers of this type offered in the sale Parzellane und Waffen aus der Kgl. Sächsischen Sammlungen in Dresden held by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, between 7-8 October, 1919








