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Lot 205
  • 205

A Swiss dagger of Holbein Type, 15th/early 16th century

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Description

  • 44.5cm
in excavated condition, with slender tapering blade, small slightly arched guard with block-shaped terminals, and slightly arched bar pommel

Catalogue Note

Provenance:

Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden

Gmunden 1890 Inv.Nr. G14, illustrated on the East Wall of The Great Hall

A dagger of similar form is preserved in the Schweizerischen Landesmuseum, Zurich,  see H.Schneider & K.Stuber, 1980,  p212, no,402.