Interesting Venezuelan dagger

Sajen · 19th April 2020, 02:31 PM

Yesterday I received this very interesting dagger. Very well worked bowie-style shaped blade shows a faded etching VIVA LA REPUBLICA framed from floral ornaments. Interesting is the engraving or better stamp at the ricasso which reads "Van Dissel, Rode & Co., Maracaibo".
With a little google search I found this: https://books.google.de/books?id=j2U...acaibo&f=false
In short it was a German trading company from Hamburg and going to Venezuela and worked from Maracaibo. So I guess that the knife is from possible Solingen manufacture but like said, it's only my guess.
Guard is from brass, ferrule iron, handle from horn, blind tang.
Scabbard is very worn and from leather and worked in a fahion we know from other South American knives/daggers.

26,5 cm overall without scabbard
14,8 cm blade only
5 mm thick near the handle

19th April 2020, 02:31 PM	#1
Sajen Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Germany, Dortmund Posts: 8,769	Interesting Venezuelan dagger Yesterday I received this very interesting dagger. Very well worked bowie-style shaped blade shows a faded etching VIVA LA REPUBLICA framed from floral ornaments. Interesting is the engraving or better stamp at the ricasso which reads "Van Dissel, Rode & Co., Maracaibo". With a little google search I found this: https://books.google.de/books?id=j2U...acaibo&f=false In short it was a German trading company from Hamburg and going to Venezuela and worked from Maracaibo. So I guess that the knife is from possible Solingen manufacture but like said, it's only my guess. Guard is from brass, ferrule iron, handle from horn, blind tang. Scabbard is very worn and from leather and worked in a fahion we know from other South American knives/daggers. 26,5 cm overall without scabbard 14,8 cm blade only 5 mm thick near the handle Attached Images