Left-handed dagger

A style of fighting with both hands developed in the European school of fencing during the 16th and 17th centuries. This type of fencing lasted for 150 years and during this time it was prevalent in Western Europe.

Advancement in this fencing style was not possible without the further perfection of weapons, including the left-handed dagger as a pair to the rapier sword in the right hand. The first documented depiction of a swordsman armed with both a sword in the right hand and a dagger in the left hand can be found in Talhoffer’s Fechtbuch dating from 1467.