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A FINE ALGERIAN FLYSSA SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 USD
A FINE ALGERIAN FLYSSA SWORD
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...
A lengthy example of classic form, the engraved brass hilt with steel ferrule and deeply-bellied, single-edged blade elaborately engraved and inlaid with brass panels and robust armor-piercing tip. In its wooden scabbard with elaborately and finely embossed and engraved silver or silvered mounts in Ottoman flowering vinework and geometrical motifs. First half of the 19th century. Minor damage to locket. Overall length 86.2 cm. Condition I