Rare dague médiévale, France milieu du XIVe... - Lot 10 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Rare dague médiévale, France milieu du XIVe siècle. A rare French Medieval quillon dagger, mid-14th century. In excavated condition, with slender blade tapering to a long very narrow point and cut with a short fuller on both sides at the forte, small arched crosspiece with flattened tips, and bronze diamond-shaped pommel formed with raised nodules at the sides, the inner and outer faces with faceted quadrants rising towards the centre, one face engraved with chevron bands and the other with a fl eur-de-lys. L.: 47.2 cm. For a detailed discussion of French 14th century daggers with this distinctive type of bronze pommel see CLOSS, von G. Adolf, & POST, Paul, Eine Gruppe mittelalterlicher Dolchmesser mit Bronzegefäss, in Zeitschrift für Historische Waffenund Kostümkunde, 6. Band der neuen Folge, 1938, pp. 161-3, figs. 1-5, 5a-6 and 7.