Unusual Albacete dagger for comment
 

Hello members,
I have recently acquired this unusual Albacete dagger. It's a type A punal, handle from horn and brass, the blade shows faded engravings. What I never have seen before is the dog head pommel. It is approx. 28 cm long with a blade from 17 cm.
Have someone seen a similar piece before? All other comments are very welcome. The last picture show it together with two other Spanish daggers.

Only I see the resemblance of the head of a greyhound with the emblem of the Trussardi fashion house? ;)

I see an excess of solder on the grip wires which seems a bit unusual for such a fancy thing. :confused:

Ren Ren, I am impressed.
Not often do we have a high maintenance man around here.

Congrats. I unfortunaqtely missed this auction! Here two fotos of similar Albacete daggers of the end of 18th century with very similar grips. The doghead might be a special order of the former owner.
corrado26

Yes, it seems to be a greyhound! :)

Regards,
Detlef

Hello Rick,
The solder is also visible at the down side from the horn grip but only strong visible by close up pictures. I don't think that it is a later repair or alteration. :shrug:

Regards,
Detlef

Thank you for comment! Yes, all on this Type A punal is typical, only the dog head and the missing brass bolsters are untypical. But it never has had this brass bolsters. I think this type of Albacete daggers are from end of the 19th century.

Regards,
Detlef

Yes, rather typical 19c Spanish hunting knife. The dog pommel is the only atypical thing.

Very nice dagger, and because of the pommel, very original!

:)

Thank you Marius! :)