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A DAGHESTAN HUNTING DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
A  DAGHESTAN HUNTING 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
Wrought entirely of silver, finely engraved and nielloed overall. The grip formed as a saber hilt with the characteristic pommel a fully-modeled leopard?s head with teeth bared. The single-edged blade well-wrought. In its silver scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, the finial in the form of a stork?s head. Last quarter of the 19th century .Overall length 27.5 cm.
Condition III