Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A collection of knives and daggers, comprising: a Greek or Turkish dagger (bichaq), blade 7.5 in. niello hilt with eared pommel, white metal covered scabbard with repoussé decoration; a small tanto style knife mounted in brass embossed with flowers; a sheath knife by William Rogers, double-edged blade 6 in, banded leather grip with alloy pommel, leather sheath; a stag handled knife, apparently adapted from a bayonet, with shortened blade, shortened steel scabbard and leather frog; a Lapp style knife with antler scabbard; a knife with a curved grip formed from a boar's tusk; and a pair of 20th century German daggers with simulated ivory grips. [8]