Fig. 35.—Main-Gauche with Steel Hilt. Belonging to Mr. Percy Macquoid.
Fig. 36.—Main-Gauche with Silver Guard. Windsor Castle.
Fig. 37.—Rapier with Silver Guard. Windsor Castle.
In striking contrast to this is the well-known Cinquedea, the Italian translation of the French Sang de dez. The name of a spear, langue-de-bœuf, has been improperly applied to it since the eighteenth century. The handles were frequently ivory with pierced brass insertions, like the illustration ([Fig. 34]), belonging to the Duke of Norfolk; but the finest examples are of chased steel, exquisitely worked and silvered. The Cinquedea was highly esteemed in Venice.
