A Dirk For id.

[Cerjak]

A Dirk For id.
Handle of horn
O.L. 33 cm ; blade L. 22.5 cm;
ref ( plateLXXIV) Catalogue of European Daggers by Bashford Dean
Any comment on it would be welcome
Best
Cerjak

[corrado26]

could be North Italian as well
corrado26

[mariusgmioc]

No idea, but it is a beautiful piece! Congratulations! :)

[kronckew]

pretty, my thoughts as i scrolled down was also italian, or at least mediterranian. (due to the the putto (cherub) face and the lion on the ricasso, a common motif.)

[kronckew]

...also could be sardinian. seen a couple of sardianian daggers in that form with lions on the ricasso.

[Battara]

I was thinking Italian..............

[fernando]

Why does something in the ricasso keeps me seeing some similarity with my Southern Italy hunting dagger ? I am becoming short sighted :shrug: .

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[A. G. Maisey]

Here's mine.

No idea where its from. Any reference I've seen just calls all of these forms "Meditteranean Dirk". Got another much earlier one that is single edged, fits into the same classification

[A. G. Maisey]

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