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A RARE QAJAR DYNASTY PERSIAN SABER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:900.00 USD Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,000.00 USD
A RARE QAJAR DYNASTY PERSIAN SABER
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 steel hilt with rolled pommel in the form of a bird's head and quillon terminals formed as dragonheads, chiseled overall with flowering vines and busts of princes, with traces of gold. The broad, lightly-curved blade with pronounced back edge, fine central fuller and paired, intermittent back fullers separated by inlaid vines, wrought of fine Persian wootz and inscribed at the right forte in a pair of cartouches, NASR AL DIN AL SULTAN QAJAR and WORK OF AITBAR ISFALI ['] Mid-19th century. Reflecting the neoclassicism introduced by Nasr al-Din Shah during his reign and bearing his name. Overall length 88 cm. Condition I