Left Hand Dagger / Probable English Manufacture Early 15th C

[Jack Loomes]

In excavated condition, with sharply tapering double-edged blade of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section, hilt comprising writhen guard with baluster quillons and writhen button terminals, flat tapering tang, and globular pommel cut with partly chequered spiral grooves

27.3 cm. blade, 38.8 cm. overall

Sold for £1,000 inc. premium

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 27 November 1931, lot 61 (part). See lot 66

Literature: Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 146, pp. 107 and 175, fig. 27

Source: www.bonhams.com/auctions/19796/lot/64/