Parrying Dagger

1650-1675 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm) Citation Source image

This dagger has a short, pointed, double-edged blade. It was attached to the sword belt and worn on the right hip with the sword on the left. Following the new tactics in swordsmanship of the late 1500s, the dagger was wielded by the left hand with a light sword or rapier in t...

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Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 8, 1921 (?); Hollingworth Magniac (1786-1867), Colworth, Bedford [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Charles Magniac, Colworth, 1867, by inheritance; Sale, Christie's, London, July 2 or 4, 1892, no. 1009; Samuel H. Austin, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Sale, New York, February 24, 1917, no. 596; Harding, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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