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A FINE AND RARE NORTH INDIAN PESH QABZ DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
A FINE AND RARE NORTH INDIAN PESH QABZ 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
The olive and rust-colored hardstone grips with fine silver pommel in the form of a falcon, with well-engraved features and a festoon of silver chains with jingles. The recurved blade of characteristic form with T-shaped spine elaborately profiled and engraved with an armory designation, and raised central ridge at the armor-piercing tip. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard with elaborately silver mounts, the locket with silver binding chains engraved in geometrical and floral patterns, with a lion hunting its prey and a Hindu goddess worked on the chape. Mid-19th century. Light wear to blade. Overall length 36.5 cm.
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