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A RARE INDIAN PATISSA SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD
A RARE INDIAN PATISSA SWORD
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
Mounted for a British general officer, the hilt comprising a pair of mameluke-type elephant grips with rolled pommel retained by silver bosses formed as stars, and a mameluke-type guard and tangband, likewise of silver. The long, straight, 17th century heirloom chamfered, double-edged blade with central ridge, wrought of very actively-patterned black and silver Persian wootz, and retaining its original pierced a fretted reinforces with gold-inlaid borders. Beginning of the 19th century. Light wear, one grip cracked. Overall length 92 cm.
Condition III