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A FINE MING DYNASTY CHINESE TROUSSE

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A FINE MING DYNASTY CHINESE TROUSSE
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 wooden sheath covered in velvet and mounted in finely embossed, engraved, gilded and nielloed silver, with a stylized character inscribed on the toggle. It contains a utility knife with hollowground blade and variegated horn grips, together with a fingernail file with matching horn grip bowed outward, and set with a silver ferrule and hinged cap nielloed en suite with the scabbard mounts, and fitted with a spring catch. When the catch is released, the cap pivots open to reveal a bone ear scoop and toothpick, pinned at the apex. Mid-17th century. Velvet possibly refreshed. Overall length 32.5 cm.
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