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 British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum possess no example of the "ear" dagger; and yet there must have been many in England, for such a dagger was the fashion among great nobles, as we may conclude from the portrait of the youthful Edward VI now in the Royal Collection at Windsor (Fig. 836).

(a, c) Probably North Italian, about 1500     (b, d) Hispano-Moorish, about 1490

All in the collection of the late Signor Ressman, now in the Bargello Museum, Florence

We illustrate four superb weapons in the Ressman Collection bequest to