Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche", c. 1650. Spain (?) or Italy, (Neapolitan?), 17th century. Steel, pierced and chiseled; overall: cm (22 1/2 in.); blade: cm (17 1/2 in.); quillions: cm (10 in.). For parrying, rapiers were often made with accompanying daggers as a matched set, although the rapier shown here () does not originally belong to this dagger. Daggers such as this one have been misleadingly called "left-handed daggers" even though they could be held in either hand. The guard is richly decorated with chiseled and pierced arabesques, an ornamental design consi
Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche", c. 1650. Spain (?) or Italy, (Neapolitan?), 17th century. Steel, pierced and chiseled; overall: cm (22 1/2 in.); blade: cm (17 1/2 in.); quillions: cm (10 in.). For parrying, rapiers were often made with accompanying daggers as a matched set, although the rapier shown here () does not originally belong to this dagger. Daggers such as this one have been misleadingly called "left-handed daggers" even though they could be held in either hand. The guard is richly decorated with chiseled and pierced arabesques, an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines.
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