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A RARE OTTOMAN CEKAN WAR HAMMER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:2,250.00 USD Estimated At:4,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
A RARE OTTOMAN CEKAN WAR HAMMER
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
A type closely associated with the Siege of Vienna in 1683, the head finely-wrought of actively-grained pattern-welded damascus steel of characteristic form with flaring hammer and curved, profiled back-spike with central fuller. The wooden haft covered in worn velvet, the mounts of silver with beaded borders. Mid-17th century.Worn overall.Overall length 63.5 cm.
Condition III