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Fig. 787. Rondel dagger with its sheath

Burgundian, about 1490-1510 Ex collection: Bernal Victoria and Albert Museum

Fig. 788. Rondel dagger

Burgundian, about 1500 Collection: Mr. Henry G. Keasby

simpler construction (Fig. 788). The Zeughaus of Berlin contains many fine and complete specimens; while a superb example is to be seen in the Musée d'Artillerie of Paris. In the Museum at Berne is a rondel dagger in so wonderful a state of preservation that it seems as though it had only just been made. The blades of these later rondel daggers are in nearly every case stiff