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A RARE CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE 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...
A fine example of Armenian work, the grip carved of a single section of horn, the silver bosses with scalloped borders. The straight, double-edged blade tapering continuously to the tip, wrought with paired central fullers and superbly inlaid with silver flowering vines with engraved details for its entire length on each side. In its silk velvet-covered wooden scabbard with iron suspension band inlaid with gold vinework and finely pierced and chiseled silver chape. Mid-19th century.An anonymous gift to the Higgins Armory Museum, February I, 1934.Ex-Higgins Armory Museum.Overall length 51.5 cm. Condition I