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A GEORGIAN HUNTING DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
A GEORGIAN HUNTING 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...
The hilt of European form, with flattened-cylindrical pommel and small, recurved, double guard in brass, engraved with tigers and prey. With bone grips and elaborately-profiled tangband, the straight, heavy, double-edged blade showing traces of wootz forging, with pronounced central ridge, chiseled in three panels with tigers amongst vines, each on a gilded ground. Second half of the 19th century. Honing marks to blade. Overall length 43.9 cm. Condition I