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Lot 102*

A Silver-Mounted Highland Dress Dirk, And A Silver Mounted Sgian Dubh
The First By Taylor, Inverness, Edinburgh Silver Hallmarks For 1922 And Maker's Mark, The Second By The Same

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Silver-Mounted Highland Dress Dirk, And A Silver Mounted Sgian Dubh
The First By Taylor, Inverness, Edinburgh Silver Hallmarks For 1922 And Maker's Mark, The Second By The Same

The first with tapering blade double-edged towards the point and fullered along the notched back edge on each side, ebonised baluster hilt carved in relief with basketweave, silver basal mount cast and chased with a thistle on the outer side, and flat silver pommel domed at its centre, cast and chased with thistles on the outer side, and with spherical button, in its original silver-mounted scabbard covered in black leather, the extra pieces en suite with the dirk; the second almost en suite, and complete with scabbard, the handle (cracked) studded with silver nails (2)
23 cm. and 11 cm.

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Provenance
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

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