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A NAGA DAO SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
A NAGA DAO SWORD
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...
A massive example of Kachin work, the wooden grip bound with fine rattan strands and lacquered, the flared bone pommel set with copper, and the ferrule of brass with silver cap. The exceptionally long, handforged, single-edged blade with expanded tip and chisel edge shows its characteristic “hairpin” pattern-welded construction. Mid- 19th century. Overall length 69.5 cm.
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