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A RARE OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE OTTOMAN 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...
The elephant grips with highly-arched terminals characteristic of Eastern Anatolian work, the elaborately-filigreed and gilded silver tangband set with corals. The blade adapted from a captured German colichemarde, of triangular section with remains of etched motifs and faint gilding at the forte. In its silver-covered wooden scabbard, finely embossed and engraved in panels depicting land- and cityscapes, together with scrolling and flowering vines. Mid-18th century. Blade with substantial wear, minor crack to tangband. Overall length 47.4 cm. Condition II