FRANCE, dernier tiers du XVIIIème siècle. Hunting or venery dagger. Silver crucifix (950) decorated with repoussé of chevrons and finished with two windings. Blackened wood handle cut and moulded, inlaid with silver knotted cartridges (950) engraved with trophies and bands of slices engraved following the cruise. Iron chain probably brought back. Flat-backed reformer blade, small edged and wide throat, engraved with trophies of arms, compass rose, crescent-shaped coat of arms on mantle and bust of turbaned Ottoman. Blond leather scabbard on wooden cores with silver (950) cut and moulded, repoussé with button and ring (metal), Trace of punch on the cruise, probably the discharge of the small works (head of dog), for PARIS, 1774-1780. Louis XVI period. Blade length : 57,5 cm (approximately) - Total length : 71,5 cm - Total gross weight : 584 g. Old handwritten inscription in ink on the reverse side of the scabbard: "Lampinet". Oxidations, wear and shocks.