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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.
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A Fine Early Dagger
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A Fine Early Dagger
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

In excavated condition, with sharply tapering single-edged blade of triangular section, brass hilt comprising short waisted faceted quillons with hoof-shaped terminals, a downbent shell-guard between, 'pineapple' grip of tapering circular section, and cap-shaped pommel with incised line decoration
28 cm. blade

Footnotes

For another example with a very similar grip and pommel see Bashford Dean, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of European Daggers ..., 1928, p. 57, pl. XII, no. 50; and for a dagger with a similar pommel in the Swiss Landesmuseum see Hugo Schneider, Waffen im Schweizerischen Landesmuseum, Griffwaffen I, 1980, p. 238, fig. 461

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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.