Daggers

Dag­gers are knives with a straight or a curved blade, single or double-edged, that is up to 50 cm (20") long. A clas­sic dag­ger is a close com­bat weapon, but there are also throw­ing dag­gers with spe­cial heavy-weight blades. The ap­pear­ance of early dag­gers differed de­pend­ing on their pur­pose. Phalanx sol­diers used short dag­gers in close com­bat while le­gion­naires and at­tack­ing sol­diers used longer blades be­cause they didn’t fight in such a com­pact form­a­tion. Fam­ous Florentine dag­gers were equipped with a spe­cial cav­ity for pois­on and a canal along the blade, but they were not too pop­u­lar.

Today, dag­gers serve more as fine art pieces than pieces of weaponry. Beau­ti­ful and el­eg­ant, they are greatly ap­pre­ci­ated by col­lect­ors and ad­mirers of cold weapons so the ma­jor­ity of the man­u­fac­tur­ers pro­duce en­graved or en­crus­ted dag­gers, which can ad­orn any col­lec­tion.