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The Desired Fantasy Daggers

If you thought that history is awash with the use of swords’ then the same applies to daggers as well. While a dagger is relative smaller than a sword’ daggers too have many important tales to tell. For example’ a dagger was what was responsible for the death of the great Julius Caesar. Many people favor daggers over swords owing to their small sizes and light weight. Besides’ more and more weapon collectors are looking at getting themselves some good fantasy daggers.

Highly decorative’ intricately made daggers can now be found quite easily. Their ‘tainted’ reputation notwithstanding’ the popularity of these daggers continues to rise. While some people are known to prefer daggers to swords’ no serious collection of swords is complete without some good fantasy daggers.

A dagger usually measures as much as a knife’ but as opposed to a knife’ it has 2 cutting edges’ and not one. While it can be used for cutting’ a good dagger is usually sharp enough to penetrate wood’ flesh’ etc. A dagger is made up of 2 parts; the blade and the hilt. The grip includes the pommel’ grip and guard; and the blade includes the cutting edges’ ricasso’ point’ and fuller. Grips of fantasy daggers can be made of a variety of materials such as wood’ metal’ ivory’ animal skin’ animal bone’ leather’ etc; and their blades are usually made using different grades of carbon steel.

Some Famous Daggers:
While daggers might not have the same amount of popularity as swords’ collecting daggers can be an equally’ if not more’ fulfilling experience. Since the availability of daggers is lesser as compared to that of swords’ they can sell for higher prices. Also’ looking for daggers involves more research thereby adding a certain charm to the process. With a number of daggers holding special places in history’ their value goes up another notch. Some of the famous daggers of the yore include:

* The famed gold bejeweled dagger that belonged to Shah Jahan (the Indian emperor who had the Taj Mahal built). A collector reportedly bought this dagger for around a thousand dollars in the 60s and the same dagger ended up being auctioned for $3 million in 2008.
* The ‘ear dagger” is a famous dagger owing to its Moorish heritage. It gets its name due to its oval oversized pommel which resembles a human ear. This is regarded as a very rare dagger to come out of Europe.
* The Topkapi is another famous dagger that is currently on display in a Turkish museum. Dating back to the 16th century’ it has a golden hilt that has 3 big emeralds’ and diamonds cover the dagger’s scabbard.

While buying a fantasy dagger that also holds value as an antique can be quite expensive’ you can always choose to get yourself a replica. There are a number of manufacturers that are known to provide extremely high quality replica fantasy daggers at fairly affordable prices. With the wide range of fantasy daggers currently available’ you can be sure of finding something in accordance your taste as well as budget.

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