Rare dague du type dit « Holbein », Suisse... - Lot 115 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Rare dague du type dit « Holbein », Suisse milieu XVIe siècle, le fourreau XIXe siècle. A rare Swiss dagger of so-called Holbein type, mid-16th century, the scabbard later. With double-edged leaf-shaped blade of near-flat diamond section slightly reinforced at the point, formed with a short ricasso and struck with bladesmith's mark on both sides, iron guard and pommel each with deeply incised linear borders about the base and the top respectively, each fitted over a shaped copper fillet, the pommel capped by a small iron stellate washer, and retaining the original shaped laurel-wood grip, in a later brass openwork scabbard lined in wood covered in green fabric, cast in relief, the outer face decorated with The Dance of Death, formed with a prominent finial involving a human mask flanked by spiralling shells, and fitted with associated by-knife and bodkin, each late 16th or early 17th century, each with short wooden grip and tubular gilt-bronze pommel cast with a demon mask in low relief. The dagger, L.: 34.5 cm - The dagger and scabbard, L.: 38.3 cm. Provenance: The Richard Zschille collection. Christie, Manson & Woods, The Collection of Arms and Armour and Hunting Equipments of Herr Richard Zschille of Grosshain, January 25-29 and February 1, 1897, lot 761 (illustrated, the photograph incorrectly captioned as lot 344). Anonymous sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 19th March 1900, lot 90 (illustrated). The Karl Gimbel collection, Baden-Baden. Gallerie Lepke, Berlin, 1904, lot 525 (illustrated). The Dreger collection, Berlin and Leipzig. Gallerie Fischer, Luzern, 3rd June 1937, lot 2470 (illustrated). Literature: FORRER, R., Die Waffensammlung des Herrn Stadtrath R. Zschille, Berlin, 1896, p.18, Nr.430, pl.151. CRIPPS-DAY, F.H., A Record of Armour Sales, 1881-1924, London, 1925, p.139, lot 525. BOSSON, C., Les dagues suisses, Geneva, 1964, p.173. SCHNEIDER, Hugo., Der Schweizerdolch, Zurich, 1976/77, p. 165, No. 114. Schneider records a 16th century example of a scabbard o