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Lot 163

A Rare French Silver-Mounted Dagger
Mid-16th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Rare French Silver-Mounted Dagger
Mid-16th Century

With slender leaf-shaped blade double-edged over half its length to the point and struck on one side with a cutler's mark, a crown enclosing two pellets, rectangular ricasso, hilt comprising ovoidal guard of dark horn with silver basal mount of hexagonal section formed as leaves over the sword and engraved with panels of foliate decoration divided on each side by a line of ropework, foliate pommel-cap en suite with button, and tapering dark horn grip of flattened oval section beaked at the top and fluted down both sides
19.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

For two daggers with similar blades see Bashford Dean, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue Of European Daggers ..., p. 158, pl. XLIV, nos. 239 and 240

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