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A RARE MEDIEVAL INDIAN KHANDA SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE MEDIEVAL INDIAN KHANDA 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
Wrought entirely of steel, with flanged pommel and flared guard, the complex seating processes spanning approximately half the length of the long, straight, double-edged blade, the flared tip formed as a cobra?s head with hood expanded. Very few examples are known, see R. Elgood, Hindu Arms & Ritual, Delft, Eburon, 2004, p. 82, for precisely similar in the British Museum and Moser Collection, Berne. 15th century. Substantially worn overall with minor losses. Overall length 86 cm.
Condition IV