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Lot 101Ф,Y
An Italian Sporting Socket Bayonet, And Eleven Various DaggersMostly 18th/19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £625 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn Italian Sporting Socket Bayonet, And Eleven Various Daggers
Mostly 18th/19th Century
Mostly 18th/19th Century
The first with tapering blade double-edged at the point, turned and moulded mount above the forte and carrying the tubular socket, the latter with turned upper border, in later brass-mounted scabbard (locket missing); the second comprising a small Caucasian kindjal with off-set fuller along each side of the double-edged blade, the waisted hilt and wood-lined scabbard covered in white-metal embossed and chased with nielloed decoration along the outside, an Argentinian white-metal mounted gaucho knife, with single-edged blade (some pitting) etched with Buenos-Aires maker's details, the grip and scabbard with embossed decoration, the latter including a putto firing an arrow at a lion along one side, and with a leopard along the other, a midshipman's dirk, with slender etched blade of diamond section, gilt-copper collar, and turned ivory grip of tapering fluted sections, in line engraved gilt-copper scabbard with two rings for suspension (gilding worn), and eight other daggers variously with horn, bone and ivory handles, four in scabbards (12)
The first 17 cm. blade
The first 17 cm. blade








