AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY SCOTTISH BRASS MOUNTED HIGHLAND DIRK ‡
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
the carved wooden grip and haunches with Celtic knotwork bands, with brass haft and pommel cap with pierced detail revealing red leather underneath, the shaped nut with trefid end, the single-edged blade possibly from a sword with a long single fuller running the main length of the flat back edge
Dimensions
40.5cm long blade, 51.5cm overall
Provenance
Captain Robert de Cardonnel Findlay of Easterhill, formed between 1900 and 1915
Sporting and Topographical Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Books, Fishing Tackle and Golf Equipment, Antique Arms and Armour, items of Related Interest, Christies Glasgow, at Blairquhan, Maybole, Ayrshire, 25th November 1983, lot 71
The John Kirk Collection