[Leo Todeschini]

Hi All,

The baselard style dagger is a very interesting knife. It had two fairly standardised forms, firstly the more Swiss/German style with separate top and bottom guards and a whittle tang blade. The second style has more of a capital I style hilt and a scale tang handle; this is a reproduction of this second style.

This style of dagger was the dagger to have in 13th and 14thC italy and was also popular in the UK and I assume France and the Lowlands.

This reproduction is very faithful to the overall dimensions of the original and has a boxwood handle and although we don't know the wood of the original, this was a very popular handle wood. The scales are held in place with copper rivets and the tang has had copper inlaid. The inlay is not correct to the original, but was a request.

This dagger has a relatively delicate hilt, but with the long blade, it is quite a monster of a dagger.

I hope you like it.

Tod

[Michal Plezia]

Great work, as usual
What are the dimensions?

[Tim Lison]

Really, really nice Tod! The blade does look wicked! I especially like the fullers.

[Leo Todeschini]

Thanks guys.

Michal Plezia wrote

[Mark Griffin]

Yummy indeed, some very nice lines. Sadly a style i don't have, must rectify that!

Griff