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EUROPEAN ARMOUR AND ARMS
of flattened diamond-shaped section and wide at the hilt. Another dagger
(Fig. 728) in the same museum, the short quillons of which, however, are
straight, resembles the dagger on the Stapleton brass in its great length of
Fig. 729. Dagger
North German,
late XlVth cen-
tury.
Collection :
Author
grip. Our next example (Fig. 729) is a quilloned dagger,
found in northern Germany, that we date at about this period.
Though it is in a poor state of preservation, it may be considered
an interesting document; since it has the proportions
of a miniature sword hilt, with the wheel pommel and slightly
that are associated with the bastard sword
drooping quillons
of 1370 onwards. Next we give as an illustration of a quil-
loned dagger of the end of the XlVth century that represented
on the brass of John Cray, Esquire, in Chinnor Church,
Oxfordshire (Fig. 730). This dagger appears to be a little
shorter; but the blade is widely proportioned, and the details
of the sheath are admirably rendered. Our next illustration
(Fig. 731) is that of a dagger that was found in the Thames
at Westminster; it must date towards the closing years of the
XlVth century. It is now in the collection of Mr. W. J. Pavyer.
In Aveley Church, Essex, there is a brass, curiously Flemish
in style, of Ralph de Knevyngton, of 1370 (Fig. 732), that
shows a variation of the quilloned dagger. In this instance
there is no pommel; but the grip
widens towards the top, where there
is a loop by which it is attached to a
it to one of the mame-
chain, fastening
lidres of the surcoat. The shape of this
dagger is suggestive of the basilard, of which we shall
shortly speak. A dagger recovered from the Thames
at Mortlake shows some of the characteristics of that
found on the Knevyngton brass (Fig. 733). The quillons
are in this case straight, and are of bronze; as
is the flat cap pommel that fits on the top of the
grip, which extends in circumference towards the top.
This dagger is now in the collection of Mr. Henry G.
Keasby; its probable date is from 1400 to 1430. The
next two daggers illustrated, an example found at London Wall (Fig. 734),
now in the Guildhall Museum, and an almost similar weapon in the London
Museum (Fig. 735), are somewhat difficult to date even approximately; for
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Fig. 730. From THE BRASS
ov 1392 OF John Cray,
Esquire
Chinnor Church, Oxfordshire