Lot 491
An early brass handled dirk
Auction: 19 August 2013 at 15:00 BST
£3,375
Description
the one piece brass handle with ribbed grip and simple incised linear decoration to pommel, the blade (reduced from a sword blade) marked "ME FECIT' with a triple 'S' mark below
Dimensions
45cm overall length
Footnote
Provenace: 'Fine Scottish Silver' Lyon & Turnbull,13th Feburary 2008, lot 372
Notes; for an almost identical dirk hilt see cat 2:3 Swords and Sorrows 1996, from Glasgow Museums (1940-45 CEW 895)