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A PERSIAN KARD DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
A PERSIAN KARD 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
The grip wrought entirely of actively-grained Persian wootz steel with profiled hemispherical pommel, of oval cross-section tapering continuously to the bolster. The broad, straight, single-edged blade wrought of fine, actively grained Persian black and silver wootz steel and struck with a maker?s mark at the left forte. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard.Mid- 18th century.Overall length 29.7 cm.
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