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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
Superb Lakh work produced in Tbilisi, the horn grips framed in engraved and nielloed silver, the bosses en suite, the reverse set with the Islamic coins. The handwrought, straight and double-edged with long tip. The leather-covered wooden scabbard with large, elaborately engraved and nielloed mounts, the reverse with a Georgian owner?s name and date, 1908, and struck with numerous Imperial Russian silver marks, as well as a name in Arabic characters, AHSHTAN (?). Beginning of the 20th century. Light wear. Overall length 53.8 cm.
Condition II