A GERMAN LEFT-HAND DAGGER, CIRCA 1600 with robust tapering blade of diamond-section, inlaid in latten with the bladesmith's mark, a crowned cross and orb, on one side, rectangular ricasso hollowed for the thumb, steel hilt comprising a pair of vertically recurved forward-canted flattened quillons with bud-shaped terminals, off-set side-ring interrupted by a circular moulding, associated fluted globular pommel, and later spirally-carved wooden grip (areas of pitting) 48cm; 18 7/8in Provenance Sotheby Parke Bernet, 14th October 1975, lot 324 Literature Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, 1982, p. 201, no. 584.