Belle dague main-gauche, Saxe, fin XVIe siècle.... - Lot 104 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Belle dague main-gauche, Saxe, fin XVIe siècle. A fine Saxon left-hand dagger, late 16th century. With tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section cut with a narrow short fuller on both sides below the hilt, iron hilt retaining nearly all of its original bright blued finish, strongly arched forward-swept flat quillons with fluted widening tips, ring-guard filled with a pierced plate, domed octagonal pommel rising to a button, and original grip bound with patterned wire and "Turk's heads". L.: 49 cm - L. blade: 35.2 cm. Provenance: The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden. Sotheby & Co., Highly Important Arms from The Saxon Royal Collections, 23rd March 1970, lot 31 (£1,300), to the present owner. For an identical example together with its matching rapier see HEINZ R. Uhlemann, Kostbare Blankwaffen aus dem Deutschen Klingenmuseum Solingen, Dusseldorf, 1968, p. 68. Further examples are in the foremost institutional collections in Europe and in The United States of America, all are preserved in fine condition, in keeping with almost all of the weapons from the Electoral Armouries in Dresden.