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A FINE ZAND DYNASTY PERSIAN SHAMSHIR

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD
A FINE ZAND DYNASTY PERSIAN SHAMSHIR
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 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 also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Of classic form, the guard finely wrought of Persian black wootz and superbly chiseled with Arabic inscriptions, NASR MIN ALLAH WU FATH QARIB (Conquest from God and victory nigh!) and ALLAH AL RAHMAN AL RAHIM (God, the Merciful, the Compassionate!) With wootz tangbands and elephant grips, each inlaid with a pair of brass rosettes and retaining twisted wire wrap to the base. The broad, curved single-edged blade forged of the finest Kara Taban wootz in the rare Zigzag or Tumbling Ladder pattern, with chiseled double cartouches to right forte, the upper containing the invocation, OH JUDGE OF NEEDS!, the lower signed, WORK OF ASSAD ALLAH. Mid 18th century. Overall length 90.2 cm.
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