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Lot 90

An Unusual Scottish Dress Dirk
Late 19th Century

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Scottish Dress Dirk
Late 19th Century

With bright tapering blade fullered and notched along the back and double-edged towards the point, silver baluster grip cast with basket weave set with studs, basal mount and feathered pommel each with running thistles, the latter set with a piece of faceted glass against yellow foil in imitation of a cairngorm, in original blackened wooden scabbard with silver mounts embossed and chased on the outside with thistles against punched grounds, the locket with vacant cartouche, the chape with applied and engraved thistles, the by-knife and fork en suite with the dirk, and with silver loop for suspension
32 cm. blade

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