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A LUCKNOW INDIA SABER WITH A GILT HILT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD
A LUCKNOW INDIA SABER WITH A GILT HILT, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With Damascus steel slightly curved single-edged blade. With a gilt-bronze engraved hilt forming a Makara swallowing a fish. The scabbard is covered with the original red velvet with openwork gilt-bronze mounts.
Lucknow, India, early 19th century.

L: 35 1/2 in., (85 cm.)

Good overall, some silver inlay is partially lost on the forte, original scabbard velvet is worn.