POST MEDIEVAL - STUART PERIOD SCALE-TANG DAGGER Circa 17th century AD. A heavy-bladed fighting and hunting knife, the iron blade of heavy section tapering to the point; bearing an uncertain set of maker's marks to the blade on one side; the hilt covered with two antler scales rivetted through the tang and terminating in a cast copper-alloy pommel of stylised eagle's beak form. 435 grams, 410 mm (16 inches). Conserved and stable; some oxidation to the iron but generally well preserved; the antler scales possibly a later replacement? Provenance From an old English collection.
POST MEDIEVAL - STUART PERIOD SCALE-TANG DAGGER Circa 17th century AD. A heavy-bladed fighting and hunting knife, the iron blade of heavy section tapering to the point; bearing an uncertain set of maker's marks to the blade on one side; the hilt covered with two antler scales rivetted through the tang and terminating in a cast copper-alloy pommel of stylised eagle's beak form. 435 grams, 410 mm (16 inches). Conserved and stable; some oxidation to the iron but generally well preserved; the antler scales possibly a later replacement? Provenance From an old English collection.
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