A friend of mine has recently found two daggers we couldn't identify. Any help would be appreciated.

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Look to be a rondel dagger (14th - 15th century ) and a ring hilted parrying dagger (16th- 17th century). I would say that the blade form for the rondel is too broad. As both have similar stamps and aging I would suggest that these are Victorian decorative pieces.
Warning! I am often wrong so wait for other to chime in. :confused:

To my quite untrained eye, they look like one-piece alloy castings with the possible exception of that ring which looks tacked on. Even the gold of the rondel's guard looks to overlap onto the blade as if painted when zoomed in using Pshop. Almost imperceptibly so, but it seems that way to me. If it turns out not to be the case, I'll be glad for the learning opportunity.

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Thanks for your observation Berserker :) Unfortunately these are the only pictures I have right now. I can ask for better quality photos.

The fullers in the blades look to me like they have been put in with an angle grinder, and if so then these would be modern and then aged, but I would say certainly not original pieces.

Tod

Thanks guys, that's what I was afraid of :)