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Fig. 804. Dagger

About 1470. Found in the Rhine Collection: Mr. Henry G. Keasby

Fig. 805. Dagger and sheath

Flemish, about 1460. Ex collections: M. Victor Gay and Baron de Cosson, now collection of Author

Fig. 806. Dagger

About 1460 Collection: Author

who in turn purchased it in a small town on the French border (Fig. 805). We are unacquainted with any "kidney" dagger of the first half of the XVth century which possesses what we should regard as an elaboration of mounting; perhaps the richest example we know of is one to be seen in Mr. Godfrey