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A KUBAN COSCACK KINDJAL DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:700.00 - 800.00 USD
A KUBAN COSCACK KINDJAL DAGGER
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...
The horn grips mounted in nielloed silver, the locket and chape on the leather-covered wooden scabbard mounted en suite, with KKB for Kuban Kazak Voisko worked on the obverse of the locket, the reverse with silver mark. The blade with two narrow fullers flanked by two broad ones on either side, and etched at the obverse forte KKB within a foliate-bordered cartouche, and the reverse with matching cartouche containing the Cyrillic characters ZOF for Zlatoust Oruzhenaya Fabrika (the date obscured by pitting) together with control marks AA for Tsar Alexander III (r. 1881-1894 c.e.) Latter 19th century. Light wear, isolated pitting to forte of blade. Overall length 50.5 cm.
Condition III