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Leo Todeschini
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 Posted: Fri 04 Feb, 2011 12:54 am Post subject: 14thC Italian dagger |
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Hi All,
A while back I received a very interesting commission for an Italian dagger from the 14thC. All we had to go on was this one painting and neither of us knew of something like this in a museum or in pictures. We speculated that it had the standard whittle tang construction of a bollock dagger (which it resembles a little) rather than a basilard (which it also resembles). We concluded it was a carved hilt without a metallic guard or pommel/cap and that is about as much as we had.
I later found a dagger in the Wallace (I733) that has a similar pommel end, though the guard is more bollock dagger and the knife is 200 years later. I then found this picture in Armi Bianchi Italien which is 15thC at least and has many of the same characteristics. To this end I constructed the dagger as best I could by squinting at the various sources and trying to fill the detail and this is what I came up with.
The original was probably Ivory but we went for a hilt of ebonised Holly and the scabbard fittings are brass and the dagger has a blade length of about 9". The tang button is rather curious, but on the Armi picture there does seem to be a long tubular button so I went for something similar.
In the end this can only be conjecture but I hope I have got somewhere close to what could have been.
Regards
Tod
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Last edited by Leo Todeschini on Fri 04 Feb, 2011 11:26 am; edited 1 time in total
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Stephen Curtin
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb, 2011 2:28 am Post subject: |
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As per usuall Leo, very nice work, and I'm sure it's new owner will think so too.
Éirinn go Brách
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Chad Arnow
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Justin B.
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb, 2011 5:57 am Post subject: |
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I love these kinds of threads. Always something drool-worthy!
Echoing Stephen and Chad, fantastic! and unique. Very well done!
Upon his arm he baar a gay bracer,
And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler,
And on that oother syde a gay daggere,
Harneised wel, and sharpe as point of spere.
A Cristophere on his brest of silver sheene,
An horn he bar, the bawdryk was of grene.
A Forster was he, soothly, as I gesse.
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Jonathan Blair
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb, 2011 7:57 am Post subject: |
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That is truly beautiful. I like the look of the holly grip.
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." - The Lord Jesus Christ, from The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, chapter x, verse 34, Authorized Version of 1611
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Jeremy V. Krause
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| Posted: Fri 04 Feb, 2011 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I really love the shape and finish of the handle.
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Ben Anbeek
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Nathan Robinson
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Leo Todeschini
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Joe Fults
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| Posted: Sat 05 Feb, 2011 7:33 am Post subject: |
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Different and visually interesting.
I still want another rondel dagger more than I want one of these (someday). 
"The goal shouldn’t be to avoid being evil; it should be to actively do good." - Danah Boyd
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Thom R.
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| Posted: Sat 05 Feb, 2011 9:27 am Post subject: |
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Thats a nice one! I like the style. tr
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This is a standard topic
