The first with burnished blade double-edged at the clipped-back point and with a narrow fuller along the back on each side, the ricasso on one side stamped 'Freville Raux A Stomer', hilt with recurved lobed steel quillons, steel pommel-cap, and natural staghorn grip, in its original scabbard covered in black leather with white-metal locket and chape, the former with frog-button; the second with similar broader blade stamped with indistinct maker's details of 'Fried Schmidt' and numbered '430' on one side of the forte, cast white-metal hilt with recurved quillons, and rounded dark horn grips, in its leather scabbard with tooled borders and white-metal mounts, the locket with suspension hook cast with a portrait bust of Diana; the third with curved fullered blade (some pitting) double-edged over a third of its length to the point and etched with a paddle steamer on one side of the forte, white-metal mounted hilt with recurved steel quillons, and natural staghorn grip (split) carved with a hound pursuing a stag in a landscape, in its white-metal scabbard with acorn-shaped frog-button; the fourth with burnished clipped-back blade (some surface rust) etched within the fuller on both sides and notched along the back, waisted forte en suite, hilt with recurved quillons, and figured coffin-shaped grip (escutcheon plate missing); the fifth with burnished single-edged blade notched along the back on one side, hilt with embossed silver mounts, and horn grip of ovoidal section, in its white-metal mounted leather scabbard with belt-clip; the sixth a small German skinning knife, the blade stamped 'Solingen' on one side, hilt with white-metal mounts embossed with oak, the basal mount inscribed 'Gott Schütze Bayern', and natural staghorn grip, in its leather scabbard with mounts en suite, the locket with an oval brass bust of a hunter, the chape embossed with a chamois in a mountainous landscape; and two further daggers (blade tips missing), one Corsican with characteristically etched blade and white-metal mounts, in its white-metal mounted wooden scabbard with suspension chain (8)
The first 24.1 cm. blade