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Purchased this thinking it was a plain naval dirk, possibly british but comes descibed as italian stiletto! What i thought was a double edged blade is actually a 4 soded curved spike with shallow fuller to each side, curious! Any help appreciated. You can see what cross section of blade is like from photo of mouth of the scabbard
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Certainly not a spike dagger; those would have straight blades, right ? Neither a stilleto, for the same reason. Beautiful piece, in any case
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Looks like a hoof shape on the end of the grip - some form of hunting knife?
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Yes, it's a French hunting dagger, see here my example with different handle: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...=french+dagger
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