Left-Handed Dagger or "Main Gauche"
c. 1650
Overall: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.); Blade: 44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.); Quillions: 25.4 cm (10 in.)
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.699
For parrying, rapiers were often made with accompanying daggers as a matched set, although the rapier shown here (1916.1810) does not originally belong to this dagger. Daggers such as this one have been misleadingly called "left-handed daggers" even though they could be held i...
Artifact
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97044
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en
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import
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accession
1916.699
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Terms
Culture
Spain or Italy, Naples
Technique
steel, pierced and chiseled
Medium
steel, pierced and chiseled
Genre
Arms and Armor
Department
Medieval Art
Relations
belongs_to