A RARE QUILLON DAGGER, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ENGLISH with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section (slightly bent in profile), iron hilt comprising a pair of short down-curved quillons with moulded terminals, fluted quillon-block, and spirally moulded globular pommel, the tang retaining a single 'Turk's head' and in untouched black patinated condition 24 cm; 9 1/2 in blade Provenance The River Thames at Queenhithe