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A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY KARD DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 600.00 USD
A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY KARD DAGGER
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...
With solid silver grips and profiled steel bolster, the single-edged blade forged of finely patterned Kara Taban Persian wootzdamascus steel. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard, the mounts embossed and engraved with Achaemenid kings and nobles derived from those at Persepolis. Mid-19th century.Overall length 32.5 cm. Condition II