Medieval/Renaissance daggers

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jokkna
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her is a link to some fine swords http://albion-europe.com/shop/
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jokkna wrote:her is a link to some fine swords http://albion-europe.com/shop/
Some of the best production swords made today. Here is their US website: www.albion-swords.com

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Here's What I know about daggers.

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All that I know about daggers is that they were (usually) really thin to pierce the chain-mail armor that was used. Hope this helps!
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Actually daggers were a wide range of shapes, sizes and designs for different functions.

Two of my fav's.

Baselard-
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Englis ... /1023/1032

Cinquedea-
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=189

Those are two real heavy hitters.

A rondel
http://www.armor.com/dagg110.html

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