LOT 2396 Medieval Dagger with Crossguard
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14th-15th century AD. A hand-forged iron scale-tang dagger with flat triangular blade, inset silver hook motif to one face, round-section crossguard. See Bashford, D., Catalogue of European Daggers 1300–1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. 1929. 240 grams, 40cm (15 3/4"). From an important private family collection of arms and armour; acquired on the European art market in the 1980s, and thence by descent. The dagger was one of the most widespread weapons in Europe during the late Middle Ages. The dagger was such a successful weapon that it earned its place in the fencing treatises of the greatest masters, including Fiore dei Liberi (1350-1420) who in his Flos Duellatorum presented himself to the readers with these words: 'Magistro Primo son de daga (= I am Master first of the dagger)'.
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