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A MUGHAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED KHANJAR DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
A MUGHAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED KHANJAR DAGGER
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
Very finely carved, the pommel terminating in a fully-modeled horse?s head. The curved, double-edged blade with central ridge, forged of silver-gray wootz steel. Second half of the 18th century.Stable crack in lower jaw. Light wear. Overall length 27 cm.
Condition II