The dagger is an obscure typographic character originally used to indicate the cutting or removal of dubious matter in a manuscript.
Soft enamel pin, 1 inch eight.
"While daggers are freely used in English-language texts, they are often avoided in other languages because of their similarity to the Christian cross. In German, for example, daggers are commonly employed only to indicate a person's death or the extinction of a word, language, species or the like."
