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Just to show you a bundle of stilettos, may be you like them.
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Udo, now thats what I call a beautiful 'floral' arrangement!
Stilettos are a fascinating dagger, and there are of course many ideas about how they were in use, and what period etc. Most interesting are the 'bombardier or gunner' versions which had the often mysterious calibrations graduated on the blade. It seems some of these had curious figures which were said to to represent certain measures used in the 'art' of gunnery. There is of course the theory that the narrow blade was the perfect size to 'spike' the touch hole of cannon in case of a battery being overrun. It seems a shame that such a beautiful dagger would be deliberately sacrificed for this mundane purpose, better to have a plain spike handy.....but then nobody 'planned' to be overrun. Anything specific on the examples in this 'arrangement'.? |
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Udo, i will have all four flowers; you can keep the vase
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Oh, I forgot one and so I made a further photo. The longest one has a thumb ring and a four edged blade, its hilt is made of wood or horn
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Are all these beauties yours, Udo ?
Does any of them have the 'centoventi' (grade) marks on their blades ? |
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Yes they are all mine but none has a scale on its blade.
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