VICTORIAN SWORD STICK WITH BRONZE FIGURAL HEAD OF DANTE.

The long wooden shaft is in excellent condition, pulling the handle away from the shaft reveals a long lethal steel blade. There is some very old twine or string wrapped around the very top of the blade to make it fit tighter in the scabbard. Bronze figural pommel modelled as the head of Danti, the detail to the bronze modelling is exceptional. Danti was born in the city of Florence in Italy in 1265, he served in the military and also trained as an apothecary but his carrier as a poet is what he is remembered for, he died in 1331. A most unusual antique sword stick. Exc++

Code: 36926