Parrying dagger with scabbard
Unknown Artist
Parrying dagger with scabbard, made up of a flattened oviform pommel bisected horizontally by a deep groove; spherical button; spirally fluted, wire-bound grip; guard of flat section, curved alternately upwards and downwards, widening at the ends; single side-ring; the mounts all of blued steel incised with chevrons and dots; blade of diamond section sharply ridged, grooved and pierced, the ricasso flattened on one side for the thumb; scabbard, covered with black velvet, the locket (with loop and pocket for a knife) and ferrule of blued steel with vertical flutings.
The top and bottom of the pommel, the guard terminals, and the centre of the side-ring are chiseled and incised with very stylised leaves.
North European, about 1610-20.
Provenance: (?) E. Juste aîne (Une do. [dague noire] lame fine striée et repercée à jour, 200 fr.; receipted bill, 21 October, 1868); (?) Comte de Nieuwerkerke.