Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 158*

A Saxon Left-Hand Dagger
Circa 1610

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A Saxon Left-Hand Dagger
Circa 1610

With sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section with central fuller over each side of the forte, steel hilt comprising strongly arched flat quillons widening to spatulate 'fish-tail' ends each with central flute, large side-ring widening at the middle and filled with a plate pierced with linked circles, compressed pommel of octagonal section with button finial, and wooden grip bound with fine twisted steel wire (minor break) between Turk's heads (some pitting overall)
33.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance
The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

Possibly one of the daggers of this type offered in the sale Parzellane und Waffen aus der Kgl. Sächsischen Sammlungen in Dresden held by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, between 7-8 October, 1919

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later

FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.