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A GREEK YATAGHAN SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 250.00 USD
A GREEK YATAGHAN 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...
Of characteristic form, the hilt and reinforces wrought entirely of embossed and engraved silver with flowering vines and stands of arms. The long, straight blade with upturned tip struck with a maker's mark. Beginning of the 19th century .Ex-Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA. Overall length 78.3 cm. Condition II