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A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY KARD DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD
A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY 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
Of typical form with staghorn grips carved with cartouches containing Persian kings and heroes, the tangbands and ferrules chiseled and inlaid with gold, the substantial blade chiseled at the forte with cartouches containing gold-inlaid Kufic-style inscriptions, and forged of fine, actively-patterned Persian wootz steel. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard with steel mounts inlaid in silver. Mid-19th century. One grip chipped. Overall length 39.5 cm.
Condition III