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Lot 1059
TWO EARLY MAIN GAUCHE DAGGERS.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$1,292.50 inc. premium
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Christopher Fox
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TWO EARLY MAIN GAUCHE DAGGERS.
One with large pierced hilt, forged quillons, carved wood grip an wide double-edge blade; one with finely pierced hilt with openwork border, iron wire covered grip and narrow double-edge blade; and a small example with oval guard, wood grip and narrow blade.
Overall lg. to 26 1/8 in.
Overall lg. to 26 1/8 in.
Footnotes
Literature
Daggers are illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), pp. 293-294.




