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Fig. 846. Dagger of the cinquedea type
North Italian, about 1520-40 Collection: H.M. the King, Windsor Castle
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Fig. 847. Dagger of the cinquedea type
Bronze gilt hilt. North Italian, about 1520 Metropolitan Museum, New York
critic. Moreover, the "blueing" on the field of the blade is unpleasantly "Georgian" in the intensity of its colour, and has not that fine blue-black patina usually associated with true XVth and XVIth century work. Such doubts are difficult to explain away; but let it be remembered, on the other
