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A MASSIVE PAIR OF MORO BEARING SWORDS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
A MASSIVE PAIR OF MORO BEARING SWORDS
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 matched PAIR of enormous processional weapons carried before a sultan or datu, in the form of panabas axes. The blades handforged, with chamfered cutting edges and profiled spines, each engraved overall in fine okir motifs. With ferrules composed of brass and steel, and wooden grips expanding toward the pommel, likewise carved overall in okir motifs. Early 20th century. Light wear. Overall length 173 cm.
Condition II