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A FINE MUGHAL SHAMSHIR SABER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:3,000.00 USD Estimated At:6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD
A FINE MUGHAL SHAMSHIR SABER
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
A superior example, the faceted steel pommel cap and guard thickly inlaid overall with gold in flowering vine motifs with silver wire wrap intact. The moderately-curved blade forged of fine, actively-patterned Persian wootz, with deeply chiseled panels at the forte containing floral sprays heavily overlaid in gold, together with faint inscriptions reading WORK OF KALB ?ALI, and a baduh,or magic square. Mid-17th century. Overall length 88 cm.
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