Help with 3 'Cross of Agades' daggers

[Miguel]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

Well Miguel there are others better qualified than I to answer your question . However one possibility is that they are daggers made for children ... I have seen scaled down Kaskaras which were described as such . If these were European weapons they might even have been described as salesmen's samples ... though I doubt this is the case here. I rather like them however !

Thank you thinreadline, I think children`s daggers could well be a valid possibility and one that I had not considered.
Miguel

[Miguel]

Regarding the example posted by Miguel I think this is a more recent work, I would guess from modern day Nigeria. It could well be simply a show piece to be worn at events like a durbar and thus not requiring any particular practicality in terms of handle size, but more of a fashionable accoutrement as part of tradition costume. Or it could be as suggest for a child, or simply an example of local brass work intended as a souvenir.

Thank you Iain for your above comments, they make perfect sense, much obliged.
Miguel

[Tim Simmons]

Some more information but all in French; Armes traditionnelles d'Afrique (agues, poignards, glaives, epees, tranches et couplets) Approche regionale et classification technique, morphologique et esthétique. Tristan Arbousse Bastide BAR International Series 1098. 2003

only trouble is I have the first page last.

[Miguel]

Thank you Tim for this information, my hilts are very much like GL 01 10 now just have to translate the text
Miguel

[David R]

I recently acquired one of these myself, nice to see so much information on them here.

[thinreadline]

Very useful Tim , thank you . Now to brush up my schoolboy French of 50 years ago !