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Lot 119

An Italian Left-Hand Dagger With 'Crab-Claw' Hilt
Early 17th Century, Probably Venetian

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Italian Left-Hand Dagger With 'Crab-Claw' Hilt
Early 17th Century, Probably Venetian

With tapering double-edged blade (minor edge nicks) of hollow diamond section flattened for the thumb on one side of the forte, iron hilt comprising notched arched double quillons, two concentric side-rings each cut with two panels of chequering and with a characteristic scallop-shaped shell between, ovoidal pommel with prominent button, and original wooden grip retaining a Turk's head (wire binding missing, russet overall)
33.2 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a sword with very similar hilt and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2016, lot 112. See also Lionello G. Boccia & Eduardo T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, fig. 586

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