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Lot 137

An Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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An Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

With sharply tapering blade (some rust patination) of stiff diamond section and robust ricasso en suite, russet hilt comprising baluster quillons with compressed moulded tips and button terminals, and grip en suite
21 cm. blade

Footnotes

A group of swords and daggers with related hilts are in the Bargello, Florence. See L.G. Boccia & E.T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, figs. 621-7; and A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1980, pp. 375-6

For an almost identical example in the Stibbert Collection see Lionello Giorgio Boccia, Il Museo Stibbert A Firenze, vol. 3, 1975, p. 128, no. 359a (illustrated)

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