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This long thrusting dagger would have been on the belt of a British naval officer and used as a hand-to-hand weapon during a boarding party or for personal defense.
A brass mounted hilt with gilt remnants and bone grip top a straight tapering fullered blade. This is a rare early and elegant piece of naval weaponry.
A naval dirk like this one is in the collection of Britain's National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London.