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DAGUE EN PIERRE DURE lame d'acier, garde, quillons, fusée et pommeau entiè

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HARDSTONE DAGUE with steel blade, hilt, quillons, spindle and pommel entirely in blood agate, silver ferrules, two turquoise cabochons at the end of the quillons. The fuse in agate covered with green tinted orvet skin. Wooden scabbard lined with green tinted orvet leather, silver cap and bolt. South Germany, 17th century
Height : 31,5 cm - Width : 7,5 cm Length of the blade : 19,2 cm (wear, cracks, tiny missing parts)
This precious dagger is the rare testimony of an object which, in its time, was already worthy of the greatest interest of the amateurs. It is represented in the well known curiosity cabinets of the painter Johann Georg Hinz (1630-1688). An identical model of the dagger is preserved in the Medici treasures at the Palazzo Pitti silver museum in Florence, and a very similar model is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [M.14-1964].