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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 900.00 USD
A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Chechen work, the horn grips with profiled pommel, the large, handwrought blade with single offset fuller to either side, signed BAZALAI, perhaps the most famous of the mountain smiths. He was renowned throughout the Caucasus and Imperial Russia, to the degree that his work was immortalized in poetry and song. In its wooden scabbard covered in leather and galloon, with nielloed silver mounts en suite with those on the hilt. Mid-19th century. Wear to mounts, tip repaired. Overall length 53.1 cm. Condition II