‡ A RARE DAGGER, POSSIBLY 14TH/15TH CENTURY Lot n° 135

‡ A RARE DAGGER, POSSIBLY 14TH/15TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with tapering double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt comprising straight cross-piece of rectangular section, slender tang, and large ring pommel, 34.0 cm Provenance Excavated in Turkey, circa 1960 Howard M. Curtis (inv. no. 496) A closely related example is preserved in the Historisches Museum, Bern. See Wegeli, 1929, p. 276, no. 1040. Two further examples are illustrated Peterson 1968, nos. 23 and 24.