#Renaissance Dagger

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BKS – Amethyst Gemstone Stiletto

This all-steel stiletto from Baltimore Knife & Sword is lavishly embellished with an inset amethyst gemstone to create a small and elegant dagger well suited to one of noble bearing. Though the dagger is small, the stiff blade with a triangular cross section is far deadlier self-defense weapon than its small size suggests and is capable of inflicting a rather vicious puncture wound on a foe. The stiletto is crafted entirely from steel and the blade is well-tempered medium carbon alloy steel with a tempered hardness of 48-50 HRc.

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A beautifully gilt Eared Dagger with an intricately carved bone grip, Italy, ca. 1520, housed at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.

The text which can be seen on the dagger's ears is the second verse of Psalm 31 (30), which reads IN TE DOMIN[E] SPERAVI / ET NON CONFUNDAR IN [AETERNUM] “In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded”.

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Jeweled medici dagger, ca. 1840

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Ear dagger, Italy, circa 1500

from The Royal Armouries Collection

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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -Mark Twain 

Thank you to Liv F.H. for capturing this uplifting moment from the first weekend. ❤️

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Stiletto dagger studies

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European 15th century dagger replica

made by Ignis Vultus historical reenactment association

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The Stiletto is a dagger with a long, needle-like blade, primarily intended as a stabbing weapon. It was a development from the Rondel and Misericorde daggers of the medieval period. The word 'stiletto' derives from the Latin 'stilus', a thin pointed Roman writing tool. Often a secondary weapon of knights, it was used to deliver the fatal blow or finish off a heavily damaged opponent. A popular weapon of the Italian Renaissance and through to the end of the 19th century, it followed Italian diaspora to the United States. The city of New Orleans suffered so many Stiletto related deaths it outlawed the sale of ant Stiletto in the city limits in 1879.

Image of a 16th century Stiletto. (Wikimedia Commons).

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daggers from the 1600s in the Cleveland museum of art

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Ádám Bodorics – All Steel Bauernwehr and Scabbard

This stylistically unique and custom crafted Bauerwehr bt Ádám Bodorics has a sharpened and well tempered blade which is solidly constructed and matched to a hilt of steel. The dagger comes with a scabbard of wood hich is sheathed in steel and completed with a steel hanging belt loop. The dagger feels quite capable and authoritative in the hand and its blade has a thick spine to ensure it has excellent durability. Below are Ádám’s own thoughts on his custom creation:

The Bauernwehr is the dagger-sized relative of the Messer, and it also exhibits noticeable variation. This specific piece has no historical analogue as far as I know, rather it’s an interpretation of a trend present on a variety of different sidearms from the period. All-metal and full-steel sidearms appear with some regularity from the end of the 15th century.

We see it on an early rapier, a glorious Kriegsmesser, several quillon daggers, stortas – so to me it made sense to create a Bauernwehr in this style. The blade is hand-forged and ground from 80crv2 and is heat-treated to 54-56 HrC. It has a minimal amount of distal taper to avoid making it too hilt-heavy. The false edge is also fully sharpened. There is a narrow and shallow fuller on both sides along the spine. The tang extends into the hilt only partially and is heavily tapered. The entire hilt is forged, ground, filed and chiseled from a single piece of mild steel. The “bolster” and “pommel” areas are marked out with pairs of filed lines, further decorated with chiseled lines. The fuller extends from the “bolsters” all the way through the “pommel”, with the sides further emphasized with a filed border. The “grip” area is lightly decorated with chiseled diagonals, emulating the puff&slash fashion slowly coming into vogue by the end of the century. It is secured to the blade by five steel rivets peened and filed down. Three rivets are along the tang, one at the edge end of the “bolsters” and one at the spine end of them.

The Nagel is also embellished by filework and chiseling, and is peened on the other side, with the peen filed down very close to the fuller of the grip. The entire hilt was cold-blued with a light touch bringing out the high spots, highlighting the details. The scabbard is based on a variety of dagger scabbards, redesigned to fit the curved blade. It has a wooden core and a mild steel cover fabricated from multiple pieces. It emulates the puff and slash fashion of the 16thcentury and has a relatively simple and subdued finial. The suspension is a chain made up of strips and rings of steel, based on a period original, terminating in a steel belt loop. It is also cold-blued and highlighted to match the hilt.

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A large dagger with a crystaline hilt and a set of by-knives, Burgundian or German, made ca. 1490, rehilted ca. 1550, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmusuem, Vienna.

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Details, suicide of Lucretia by various artists, (1), (2), (3)

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Dagger and sheath, 1580, Saxony, Germany.

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