Swords get a lot of press around here, but daggers are essential items for most collectors. I thought a new thread for people to showcase the daggers from their collections would be fun. We have a "Your last sword" thread, but here you can show off any and all daggers from your collection you think people might want to see.

Groups shots of all the daggers in your collection would be great, but individual shots are welcome, too.

People have already seen my dagger collection, but here it is again to kick the thread off:

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I have several daggers but this rondel is the only one that I help build. I did the bronze rondels and provided the blade. A friend of mine made the cocobolo handle.
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The blade is 5160 at R50 or so and is 12" long.
I've carried this guy for a long time.

Only two daggers in my lot...

Windlass Scottish dagger...companion to my Scottish back-sword formely owned by our man Nathan..




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a custom stiletto by KBW - Knives by Will.....

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i don't have many daggers, but the last one I bought was a 17th century replica Del Tin 2175 (photo from Albion)

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Here's a few I made myself. There's something very satisfying about making a dagger, possibly because it's not too big a project and daggers are such 'personal' weapons/tools that you can put a lot of yourself into them.

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This is a Scramasax from Hanwei / Paul Chen's factory. I've had it a few years. It's got a very nice blade-heavy feel to it. The scabard is fairly heavy leather.
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This one is not really historically accurate... it was custom made for me by a local smith. I'm very fond of two very different cultures -- Celtic / Viking / Norse, and Japanese. It is pattern welded, forged in a Norse / Viking style but the blade shape of course is a Tanto. After receiving the bare blade, I finished the knife myself. The handle, scabard, and habaki were all self-made, the tsuba is an antique from Japan.
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A couple more pictures of these two are in the Gallery.

-Stephanie

These are some of my "short" blades including all of my more recent ones and some old fav's. I also have some utility type knives, bowies, and sgians that are more in the category of working knives but these are my show and tell minus a couple of antiques. Sorry for bad photo quality - indoor lighting without the flash



Starting at the top
1. Pillow or scarf sword, early 18th c., hollow ground (both sides) single edged blade 22 inches. The kind of blade a coachman might hide around his person while driving at night. Interesting blade - very baroque in style - have never seen another one like it. Cut and thrust
2. Hunting dagger/sword, early 18th c., English, Silver mounts, double edged hollow ground blade 21 inches. One of my all time favorites. Wish it was in better shape. Beautiful hollow grinding. quillons are dogs. Ebony handle.
3. Short sword, Austrian, early 19th c. double edged, 18 inches. Interesting brass on this - very light in color (high in tin). Probably made that way due to shortages of material in wartime. If I had to grab a short blade to defend myself this would be it.
4. Kukri, Mark III 1944. Personally, I would not want to mess with someone who had this in hand and knew how to use it.
5. Malay dagger/knife, old damascus, horn hilt, probably early 20th c. or late 19th c. Neat blade, found it in Singapore years ago
6. Reproduction hanger, Dan Graves. Modern random damascus. 18 inches. Filework on top. Almost too beautiful to cut with. (not)
7. Serpent in the steel #9, J Arthur Loose. Integral guard. One piece of steel folded into shape. Amazing work that guy does!
8. Reproduction Jacobite Dirk, Michael Tinker Pearce. Based on 'Swords and the Sorrows' 2:6.
9. Reproduction Dirk, Glenn McClain. Based on Neumann #25K (thanks Chris!)
10. Tibetan or Bhutanese dagger, single edged, early-mid 20th c. Nice silver mounts. Hairpin folding.

Here is my collection (or all but two of them). Some are recognizible, some more obscure. See if you can ID them all!

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Chad,

Unfortunately, I don't make the blades myself (I wish I had a forge!). I tend to buy in blanks or recycle old blades and grind them to suit my purposes. The top dagger has a Yew wood handle and sheath and an old FS blade. The bollock dagger has a 10" blade from a French maker, with a Lacewood grip. The 14" Misericordia is the top half of a blade from an old (repro) rapier (the bottom half of which I used to make a parrying dagger for WMA). The grip is Lacewood.

Below is another dagger I made using an old FS blade that I cleaned up. The handle and sheath are Laburnum. I love working in nicely figured wood, as my main hobby is Mediaeval decorative woodcarving (see Green Man below - sorry, it's off-topic).

I also pick up the odd interesting piece that catches my eye, such as the antique stylet dagger.

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I could add to this thread but most of the daggers I have owned are ones that I have made, and all have been sold and are therefore no longer in my collection. Being a part-time custom maker I'm not sure if it would be considered a plug to post pictures of them to begin with. In any event this thread is an interesting one to me, I would love to see more of what folks have been collecting in the way of daggers. Thanks to those who have shared!

Hi,
Some daggers from around the world.
1) Silver mounted and ivory handled Dha Hmyaung of the Shan people of Burma.
2) Persian dress dagger with gold washed blade, latter part of the 19th Century.
3) Inlaid bone handled dagger from the Surmene area on the Black Sea.
4) Full tang bone handled dagger probably 19th Century Khyber region.
5) Horn handled long dagger or short sword from the Surmene region on the Black Sea dated 1910.
Regards,
Norman.