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A RARE SPANISH HUNTING DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE SPANISH HUNTING DAGGER
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
The silver grip well-engraved throughout in baroque motifs. The pommel likewise engraved and retained by a nut which, when removed, reveals a series of apertures containing a pair of steel by-knives and a skewer with profiled silver handles. The broad blade tapering continuously to an acute tip, in its wooden scabbard with velvet panels and finely pierced and engraved silver cover with large belt clip to the reverse. First half of the 18th century. One implement lacking. Overall length 28.4 cm. Condition II