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A Rare Saxon Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger
The Scabbard Mounts With Dresden Silver Mark And Maker's Mark Of Wolf Paller, Late 16th Century

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Saxon Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger
The Scabbard Mounts With Dresden Silver Mark And Maker's Mark Of Wolf Paller, Late 16th Century

With robust tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section changing to diamond section at the point and with central fuller over most of its length on each side extending from the fluted ricasso, hilt of blackened iron comprising short down-bent gourd-shaped quillons and small side-ring, globular pommel chiselled around the top and with later scroll engraved silver cap and button, and silver wire-bound grip retained by an engraved foliate ferrule above and below, in an original blackened fabric-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket and chape each pierced with two openwork panels and chased with symmetrical foliage on the outside, and etched against blackened grounds with a crow, an owl and scrolling foliage, the locket with two apertures for by-knives (missing), etched with a rectangular panel of foliage along the sides inhabited by hounds pursuing a hare and a boar respectively, and with two fixed suspension loops on the back, the chape with turned and moulded finial
24.5 cm. blade

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Provenance
The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden

For a dagger in a very similar scabbard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York see Bashford Dean, Catalogue of European Daggers..., 1929, p. 106, no. 116, pl. XLI

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