AN ITALIAN ALL-STEEL STILETTO with short blade (tip reduced) of triangular section turned at the ricasso, the hilt with writhen grip chiselled with foliage, globular pommel, and quillons en suite, each involving a monster, 17th Century; and an Italian gunner's stiletto with blade of stiff triangular section with moulded ricasso and a numbered scale on one face, short ovoidal writhen quillons (loose) and pommel, and swelling spirally fluted horn grip decorated with brass dots (slight cracks, brass binding missing), mid-17th Century 7½in. and 15¾in. (2)
AN ITALIAN ALL-STEEL STILETTO with short blade (tip reduced) of triangular section turned at the ricasso, the hilt with writhen grip chiselled with foliage, globular pommel, and quillons en suite, each involving a monster, 17th Century; and an Italian gunner's stiletto with blade of stiff triangular section with moulded ricasso and a numbered scale on one face, short ovoidal writhen quillons (loose) and pommel, and swelling spirally fluted horn grip decorated with brass dots (slight cracks, brass binding missing), mid-17th Century 7½in. and 15¾in. (2)
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