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A RARE OTTOMAN HANCER DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 USD
A RARE OTTOMAN HANCER 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...
An earlier example than typically encountered, the mounts well-wrought in brass, the waisted grip with pronounced central ridge, the scabbard with separately applied locket with profiled palmette borders. The obverse with later punchwork decoration in Classical Greek vegetal motifs, suggesting capture. The robust, hand-forged blade lightly curved and double-edged with central ridge. Beginning of the 17th century. Light wear. Overall length 29.2 cm. Condition II