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A CULT DAGGER
A CULT DAGGER, A VICTORIAN STILETTO AND A CONTINENTAL STILETTO, 19TH CENTURY
the first with broad double-edged blade etched with a frosted panel filled with foliage, trophies-of-hunting, a stag and doe and a hunter (areas of wear), silver-plated hilt decorated with thistle foliage in low relief, in its silver-plated scabbard decorated with scrolls, foliage a Medussa mask and a devil; the second by Manson, Sheffield, etched on one side of the blade 'Never draw me without reason nor sheath me without honour' white metal hilt decorated with fruit and foliage in low relief, in is red leather scabbard with white metal mounts and the third with white metal hilt formed as a female demi-figure, in its scabbard
the first: 17.2 cm; 6 3/4 in blade
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Sold for £450
A CULT DAGGER, A VICTORIAN STILETTO AND A CONTINENTAL STILETTO, 19TH CENTURY
the first with broad double-edged blade etched with a frosted panel filled with foliage, trophies-of-hunting, a stag and doe and a hunter (areas of wear), silver-plated hilt decorated with thistle foliage in low relief, in its silver-plated scabbard decorated with scrolls, foliage a Medussa mask and a devil; the second by Manson, Sheffield, etched on one side of the blade 'Never draw me without reason nor sheath me without honour' white metal hilt decorated with fruit and foliage in low relief, in is red leather scabbard with white metal mounts and the third with white metal hilt formed as a female demi-figure, in its scabbard
the first: 17.2 cm; 6 3/4 in blade
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