29th Jun, 2023 12:00
The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives
521
A SPANISH DECORATED HUNTING DAGGER, TOLEDO, LATE 19TH CENTURY
with etched tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, pierced with an elliptical aperture at the forte and inscribed ‘Fabrica de Toledo’, decorated over its surface with four differing hunting vignettes on each face within a strapwork frame on a ground of foliage, slightly recurved iron cross-piece, and natural staghorn grip, in its leather scabbard with decorated locket en suite with the blade (chape missing, light surface rust), 40.0 cm overall
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 99.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sold for £450
with etched tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, pierced with an elliptical aperture at the forte and inscribed ‘Fabrica de Toledo’, decorated over its surface with four differing hunting vignettes on each face within a strapwork frame on a ground of foliage, slightly recurved iron cross-piece, and natural staghorn grip, in its leather scabbard with decorated locket en suite with the blade (chape missing, light surface rust), 40.0 cm overall
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 99.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Auction: The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives, 29th Jun, 2023
