Wonderful Material on Swords and Daggers in the Wallace Collection!

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Daggers, from top:

- a Landsknecht's dagger, A 754, the punched, dotted decorative ornaments characteristic of various kinds oif ironworks of ca. 1530-50, including door locks, wheellocks etc., retaining its iron-covered sheath;

- a ballock dagger, A 732, probably 1st half 16th c., with characterisctically figured boxwood grip and triangular thrusting blade, retaining its figured leather sheath including a prick and a further tool;


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