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A Ballock Dagger In Flemish 15th Century StyleProbably 19th Century
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £875 inc. premium
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A Ballock Dagger In Flemish 15th Century Style
Probably 19th Century
Probably 19th Century
With robust slightly curved blade of stiff diamond section towards the point, the forte single-edged and four-sided with a broad flat spine and struck on one side with a mark, a comet(?), the ricasso sheathed in brass decorated with punched scrollwork inhabited by flowers and foliage and diagonal bands, small lobed brass guard, spirally fluted swelling wooden grip, and slightly domed steel cap with central convex octagonal washer
32.3 cm. blade
32.3 cm. blade
Footnotes
Cf. a similar dagger described and illustrated in Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bt., A Record of European Armour and Arms ..., Vol. III, 1920, pp. 38-39, figs. 808 and 809








