A very scarce ear-dagger hispanic-moorish dating: last quarter of the 15th Century Provenence: Spain Strong, straight, single -and false-edged blade, the base stamped with a cross and a circle, a slight fuller at the tang, gold-inlaid with fine hunt drawings (hunter, deer, wild boar, dogs and lion) on racemes; typical, iron hilt, the band, the inside of the ears, the inside of the risers and the pommel gold-inlaid with oriental symbols framed by arabesque. The quillon -block covered with dark horn plaques in the shape of a hourglass, ebony grip scales (some parts replaced by a museum restorer with segments of light wood), engraved with floral motifs, the plaques of the ears worked en suite, at the borders some letters looking like the “R” and the Greek “Pi”, gold rivets.See "A Record Of European Armour and Arms", Vol. III, by Sir Guy Francis Laking, pp 49 - 55, the number 827 shows the same mark and has a very similar decoration in gold. See another similar dagger in "Blankwaffen" by Heribert Seitz, Vol. I, page 214/215. Dated 1372, it is in the National Museum of Florence and shows, a part from the same structure, a similar gold decoration. condition report: very good