Posted: Tue 21 Jan, 2020 8:04 am Post subject: Help ID'ing a 'rondel' dagger/ dirk
so i picked up this dagger second hand.. quite lovely, very long, quite pointy but i cant place the design very well... i remember hearing about rondel daggers with non rondel pommels, maybe this is related? is it some sort of dirk?
or even a movie prop kind of deal, even better if someone / anyone can place the designs source... because i cant... it was bought in the last 10-15 years i believe
Almost certainly a Windlass piece, probably sold through Museum Replicas. I vaguely recognize the design - I'm going to guess late 1990's or early 2000's manufacture, but I'd have to dig through some old catalogs to be sure.
Almost certainly a Windlass piece, probably sold through Museum Replicas. I vaguely recognize the design - I'm going to guess late 1990's or early 2000's manufacture, but I'd have to dig through some old catalogs to be sure.
i'm just as curious about what id call the blessed thing... dirk, rondel dagger, maybe some uncatagorised kind of 'dagger' that existed?
It's a Rondel dagger. There were a number of early ones that had pommels like this. I think Harold Peterson's Daggers and Fighting Knives of the Western World discusses this; there may be pictures as well but I don't have the book to hand right now to confirm.
There are many examples of rondel daggers that only have rondels as their guards, not as their pommels. Here are two examples from the Higgins Collection at the Worcester Art Museum:
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