Here's what my dagger collection looks like right now. :)

From left to right:

Tod's Stuff Sax
A&A Custom Swiss Dagger/Early Baselard
Tod's Stuff Quillon Dagger
A&A Crusader/Classic Dagger hybrid
Arma Bohemia Ballock Dagger
English Cutler Ballock Dagger
A&A Custom Rondel Dagger
Tod's Stuff Rondel Dagger
Vince Evans Scottish Dirk

All are historically sized. I love the amount of variation in size, shape, and subtlety that period daggers have. I've tried to get a decent cross-section in my collection.

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Not a very big nor impressive collection, it's only in the last year that I started looking at short stabby things.

First up, a customized Alpine Dagger from Arms and Armor, slightly shorter blade with a Walrus Ivory handle.

Second, a viking folder inspired knife, carbon steel blade with Kauri Wood handle.

Third, a scottish inspired knife that I had seen a picture of the original somewhere on the forum, and liked the shape.

Here is a main gauche that I got from Baltimore Knife and Sword. The blade is around 11.5 inches long. It's very sturdy

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the latest family portrait of my daggers from Tod.
The steel rondel is new, the baselard is newish. All others have been around for a while.

Some of mine daggers (they have been posted elsewhere on this forum before):
- early 17th c "swordbreaker" (based on a piece in NY Metropolitan Museum)
- 14th c baselard
- 14th c rondel
I should do a family photo, also with other pieces:)

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Some really nice daggers here

This really should be a spotlight topic, like some of the other "Show us" threads. Daggers are great, so much variety, and sometimes more affordable for beginning collectors (I owned a dagger from A&A long before I was able to get one or two of the swords I drooled over). Anyhow, I hope to contribute some good pics in addition to the great examples above! I really like the "family" style of pics.

Here is a Bauernwehr I just received from A&A. Does it qualify as a dagger? Well here it is, 15 in blade, about 5 in handle. This was a Muster Page item that really resonated. I asked Craig for a sheath with a simple chape to go along, and when I got it, I really appreciated the matching bezels they put on it with the pommel. That's the sort of thing that I can just trust them to throw in and give me something cool that I did not know exactly what to ask for. Maybe someday I will be brave and either do some tooling on the sheath or more likely have someone good at it do for me!

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In hand, where it belongs.

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Matching Bezels on pommel and chape top.

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In sheath.

Group shot from pi day, 2015.

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About a $40 investment... cut down from a rat tail "Elven fighting knife" that oddly had a very substantial and solid carbon steel blade....

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Kelvingrove by Vince & Grace Evans
2001 BAKCA

Nice stuff, most of my daggers are along the line of Randall and Cold Steel but here is a shard of an 18th century smallsword. folded steel blade from the Alsace area. It came attached to various fittings . It pairs well with rapiers.

Cheers

GC

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Custom late 14th century quillon dagger by Tod. I hadn't realized how massive this dagger was going to be until it arrived, and Tod had actually made it slightly shorter than the original it was based upon. The blade length is similar to some of the large battlefield rondels that have survived.

I should note that all of these photos are Tod's, not mine.

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Rondels by Tod.
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Ballock dagger by John Gage.
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Craig

Nice looking Quillon Dagger.

Can you provide some dimensions and weight for the Dagger?
Overall length, blade length, blade width, quillon width, weight

According to Tod's facebook page this Dagger is based on one sold by Hermann's Historica Auction House.

I believe the Dagger in question was part of "Auction 68 - Lot Nr. 3637"

"A South German or North Italian knightly dagger, circa 1380

Slender blade of diamond section. Sturdy, straight quillons, slightly tapered tang. Large, flat disc pommel, the rivet head with elongated, octagonal washer. Length 56 cm."

Here are some pics of the original dagger.

http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images68_max/90778.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images68_max/90778_b.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion/images68_max/90778_c.jpg

Thanks

Danny

Danny,

That's the one that was the basis for my dagger. Unfortunately, I cannot give you the weight, but I can provide the other specs for Tod's reproduction (with Tod's blessing).

Overall Length: 55 cm
Cross Width: 13.3cm
Pommel Diameter: 5.3 cm
Blade Length: 38.15 cm
Blade Width at Cross: 3.1 cm

I got to see this dagger when it was being fitted for its hilt components... it was beautiful ! I looked very closely at the damascus and i believe Jake slipped some wrought iron into the mix... it gives the layers a real tasty look
and the patterns he carved in the bog oak... fabulous

it was an absolute pleasure to see

you own one heck of a great dagger !

G

Jonathan Eells wrote:

I've got Manigandr, a Jake Powning piece. I only need this one dagger for my entire life.

Here is a Windlass Medici dagger

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I've posted this elsewhere - but I like this dagger very much and am drawing attention to it again -

Del Tin DT6161 - a 16th century parrying dagger
Blade length - 16.125 inches
Blade width - about 2 inches at the guard

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