Jumping blade dagger
| Jumping blade dagger | |
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| Weapon type: | dagger |
| Use: | Military and civil weapon |
| Creation time: | 16th Century |
| Working time: | 16th - 18th century |
| Region of origin / author: |
Spain |
| Distribution: | Europe |
| Handle: | Wood, horn, metal, ivory |
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The jumping blade dagger is an early modern parrying dagger .
history
In the mid-16th century, a fencing method emerged in Spain in which the fencing epee was held in the right hand in order to fall out with it (Spanish espada de matador ), and in the left hand a dagger with the blade pointing down to parade . With the advent of firearms, these fencing daggers disappeared.
The jumping blade dagger has the outer shape of a normal fencing dagger, with the exception that the dagger blade is divided into three parts. The middle part is firmly connected to the handle of the dagger, while the two outer parts of the blade are attached to the fixed blade with a hinge pin . In the handle and in the lower part of the central, fixed blade there is a spring device which holds the outer blades in the closed state on the central blade. When you press a button on the handle, the locking of the outer blades is released and the blades spring open. The purpose of the dagger is to clamp the opponent's blade in place.
The weapons historian Wendelin Boeheim once described the purpose of these jumping blade daggers, which was to widen the wound by jumping open after a blow. This theory was rejected as untenable.
literature
- Wendelin Boeheim: Handbuch der Waffenkunde Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985 (original 1890), ISBN 978-3921695951
- Eduard Wagner, cutting and stabbing weapons, Dausien Verlag Hanau, 2nd edition 1987, page 89, ISBN 978-3768415989
- Liliane and Fred Funcken, historical weapons and armaments, Orbis Verlag Munich 1993, page 221, ISBN 978-3572078936
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 5. Leipzig 1906, pp. 87-88. [1]
- ↑ Steve Shackleford; Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values , Verlag Krause Publications, 2010, ISBN 1440214603 , page 399 [2]
- ↑ Chad Arnow: Combination Weapons in myArmoury.com [3]
- ↑ August Friedrich Demmin : Weapons of war , 1870, page 401 [4]
- ↑ Wendelin Boeheim, Handbook of Arms , Nachdr. D. Ed. Leipzig 1890, Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8 , page 301, illustration on page 302
- ^ Association for Historical Weapons: Journal for Historical Weapons, Volume 2, 1902, pages 358–354 [5]