Dagger the damask dagger in a gold frame, depicted in figure no. 104, entered the armory chamber in 1810 from the rustkamera at the imperial cabinet in st. Petersburg. Its gold handle and scabbard contain a large sapphire at the top, fifty-six large and medium-sized emeralds, two hundred and nine sapphires, thirty-four pearls, and, in addition, the ferrule of the scabbard and the outlines of the patterns are made of turquoise embedded in gold. Date: before 1853.
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