A Brescian left-hand dagger circa 1660-70. With two-stage blade tapering sharply to a long narrow point, the lower portion with notched and punched back edge, the ricasso formed with a pair of scrolling arms for blade-catching, the inner face indented for the thumb, and both sides decorated with punched abstract patterns and struck with a small rectangular mark, a cross potent, iron hilt chiselled in low relief, comprising lobated triangular guard drawn up to a chiselled button projecting towards the pommel, finely cut with a pierced tiered arran, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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