Need help with an antique dagger

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If you remove the blade you might just get lucky and find some marks on the blades tang.

 

Will do!

 

Ahhh that's scary! I'd hate to damage it in the process. But what if you're right???

 

that's lottery kinda luck...

 

Hi @Lacey777

It looks like it's just held together with a peg type shim and maybe even fits the original handle. Anyway, that should be easy to loosen...

 

Welcome to Antiquers, @Lacey777 . Looks like you have come to the right place! Feel free to post more of your finds with questions!

 

There is always the chance this is a Hollywood movie prop: a marriage of an old bayonet blade in a recast handle meant to look like something else for the movies . a bunch of years back there were thousands of old Hollywood costumes on fleabay and antique shows.... I think one of the studios cleaned house ... even a couple of years ago in San Jose I picked up a couple of real Philippine American era shoulder bags( converted 1878 ? pattern I think) that had a studio marking..... Lot's of "period" war movies back into the silent era , and they had to "arm" those armies with something , not always wooden swords.....

 

that sounds possible......plausible...even !

 

That is very interesting! Thank you so much for the info.

 

My mother and I went to (stumbled on) the MGM liquidation around 1970... Mountains of gladiator sandals etc.

I bought a Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms/Judy Garland cotton flowered dress and blue cotton turtleneck I wore under it. (I was arty, ok?)

 

Worn with clogs, of course