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A SUDANESE KASKARA BROADSWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
A SUDANESE KASKARA BROADSWORD
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...
With wooden grip and brass crossguard. The long, straight, double-edged blade of above-average quality, etched with Arabic calligraphy, including ALLAH! and a partially legible inscription, possibly the owner's or maker's name '' IN OMDURMAN AL MALIK AL AMAR MAHMUD 1304 a.h.'[1886/87c.e.] Muhammad Ahmad, known as the Mahdi, made Omdurman his military headquarters in 1884; it remained the Mahdist capital until 1899. Dated 1886/87.Grip-wrap lacking .Overall length 105.7 cm. Condition III