Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Strange Dagger in 16th Century Dutch Painting

laEspadaAncha · 30th December 2010, 05:45 PM

Here's a close-up of the hybrid ballock-rondel dagger shown in The Arrest of Christ... What I find interesting about this is we see style elements of the earliest pre-Jacobite dirks (e.g., disc pommel and ballock lobes) that were to evolve from Highland ballock daggers over the next century.

30th December 2010, 05:45 PM	#5
laEspadaAncha Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 608	Here's a close-up of the hybrid ballock-rondel dagger shown in The Arrest of Christ... What I find interesting about this is we see style elements of the earliest pre-Jacobite dirks (e.g., disc pommel and ballock lobes) that were to evolve from Highland ballock daggers over the next century.