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AN AFGHAN PULOWAR SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,400.00 USD
AN AFGHAN PULOWAR 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 fine hilt with drooping quillons terminating in monsterheads and cupped pommel, elaborately engraved and superbly pierced throughout, with sections of silver wire wrap to grip. The robust Persian blade forged of dramatically-patterned black wootzdamascus steel, lightly curved and single-edged. Middle of the 19th century.Overall length 86.7 cm. Condition I