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Friday 15 December 2023 e Saturday 16 December 2023, 02:00 PM • Sarzana

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An outstanding chiseled left-hand dagger - Southern Italy

Estimate

€ 2.500 - 3.500

Sold

€ 5.500

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

length 64,7 cm.
Solid, long blade of triangular section with pointed tip featuring a short, squared shoulder at the base and two curls at the sides, then with tang shaped as a parallelepiped, engraved with circles and a mark on the rear part, deep fullers on the sides and a big fuller for the thumb on the back. Steel hilt. Beautiful, strongly-convex knuckle guard, fully chiseled and worked with a thick pattern of flowers and racemes, with thick, twisted border highly roped toward the front size, with a floral, chiseled frame. Quillons are straight at the base and then twisted, ending with flowers placed on balusters. Cylindrical handle chiseled with spirals and curls, and with engraved flowers. Spherical pommel chiseled with spirals, with long, cylindrical button.
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Si tratta di un'asta indipendente da Finarte e come tale gestita interamente a Sarzana da Czerny's. Per oggetti considerati "arma" dalla legge italiana per l'acquisto è necessaThis is an independent auction from Finarte and as such is managed entirely in Sarzana by Czerny's.