Crusiform bladed Dagger E Bay

[David]

Originally Posted by archer

Thank you all for the information. I liked it and wanted to bid early on:but, it was much too puzzling. Thanks, Steve

Ah yes Steve, but sometimes you just gotta go with your gut, the puzzles be damned!
....of course it would have been a wee chunk o' change you would have had to lay down for the right to handle that puzzle so i can understand you hesitance. ...still i'm will to bet this blade feels really nice in the hand...

[Rick]

I would like to get this one niggling question straight .

The thread title says 'Cruciform' ; correct ?

Pardon me if I assume the blade of this implement has 4 edges rather than the three edges mentioned in a post earlier on .

Just to get things straight about this piece for the record .

Four edges to the blade; "cruciform" or not ?

Or is it three edges ?
Please, who has the answer ?

Rick

[laEspadaAncha]

Hi Rick,

A "cruciform" cross section would indeed indicate a hollow-ground, four-sided blade.

[Robert]

Yes, A very nice little dagger with a four sided blade. Still looks French to me. Imagine if you would, someone in France on the Grand Tour sees a dagger in a cutlers shop and decides to purchase it for themselves or someone they know. Dagger is brought back to England and taken to the engravers for a little embellishment. Owner looks at the engravers work book and says "I like this design, can you do this on my dagger?" engraver, not a problem. 150 years or more later, major problems on this forum. Just an idea out of left field.

Robert

[David]

Originally Posted by Robert Coleman

Yes, A very nice little dagger with a four sided blade. Still looks French to me. Imagine if you would, someone in France on the Grand Tour sees a dagger in a cutlers shop and decides to purchase it for themselves or someone they know. Dagger is brought back to England and taken to the engravers for a little embellishment. Owner looks at the engravers work book and says "I like this design, can you do this on my dagger?" engraver, not a problem. 150 years or more later, major problems on this forum. Just an idea out of left field.

Robert

I suppose that is a possibility. Of course the Green Man does appear all over Europe even is we do see it more in this form in England, so who knows.
Is there anyone who is good at IDing various forms of dragon designs? Do they get specific from country to country in Europe?

[Tim Simmons]

I think the creature on the dagger ia a Wyvern.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern

Like the Green Man a pan European thing. I can add pictures of Swiss/German contempory Green Man masks from mountian regions. They might have different names but the same thing. It stricks me as just a little too showy to be British.

Swiss festival mask. Rather like the traditional garb of the leader of an English Morris group. Ancient roots but nothing to do with the so called neo-pagans hotch potch.

[David]

Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

I think the creature on the dagger ia a Wyvern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern

Thanks Tim, i think you may have nailed that one...