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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL
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
The staghorn grips with chiseled foliate borders, the tangband heavily inlaid in gold, the blade repurposed from a late 16th century Ottoman saber. Wrought of actively-patterned Persian black wootz, and finely inlaid at the right forte with two Qur?anic panels in gold, including BISMALLAH AL RAHMAN AL RAHIM (Blessings of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!) On the left, a finely-chiseled foliate panel and inlaid in gold, WORK OF MUHAMMAD HASSAN SALU. Latter 19th century.Overall length 30 cm.
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