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Lot 1060

THREE MAIN GAUCHE DAGGERS,
19th century.

3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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THREE MAIN GAUCHE DAGGERS,
19th century.

Two with wide guards, twisted wire wrapped grips and narrow stiletto blades; one having a guard inlaid with brass cross decoration, silver ribbon wrapped grip and triangular blade with brass inlays.
Overall lg. 22 1/2 in.

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Literature
One illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), p. 293.

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