Been going through the photo albums, but haven't turned anything up (though I have yet to go through all the images), but in the feature article about ballock daggers it's mentioned that the hilts were made up of wood, "horn, ivory, bone, and in much later designs brass and even agate." All sound interesting, but the one that really caught my interest was ivory. I've seen samples of cinquedeas with ivory, but that's it. Does anyone here have photos of medieval daggers with ivory? Thanks.

So, I found a couple samples, at least one is ivory (the first picture), the dagger in the second picture has ivory looking slabs, but could be bone. These daggers are housed in the armoury of the Dukes of Burgundy. Does anyone have better photos of them? Or other samples of medieval ivory hilted weapons?




Pictures by Eli Steenput

The hilt on this ear dagger appears to be ivory
http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/images/cache/Img505S1000.jpg

I found it on this thread
http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t...nathan+ear

Beautiful dagger.

:D I'd like to see what you've made when you're finished if you'd publish it for us here.

That is a beautiful ear dagger, very intricate, Found another dagger here, looks like ivory. It looks quite overdone, especially with that sheathe.

The Wallace Collection A733

# Dagger
# Unknown Artist / Maker
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# Germany
# c. 1490 - c. 1510
# Steel, ivory, silver and gold, niello, etched and gilt
# Length: 30 cm, blade; Width: 3.2 cm; Weight: 0.3 kg
# Inscription: 'OMA I TE…E.I EMEM'; Maker's mark
# A733
# European Armoury I

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Wallace Collection # A733

Wonderful example Nathan, thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for.