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A RARE PANDUR KARABELA YATAGHAN SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:800.00 USD Estimated At:1,600.00 - 1,800.00 USD
A RARE PANDUR KARABELA YATAGHAN 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
An extremely rare example carried by the Pandursof Baron von der Trenck c. 1740 Exceptionally long yataghan-form blade with etched motifs including stands of arms, crescent moons and a Turk?s head. The rhino grips of karabela form with deep fingerstalls, mounted with brass studs, the brass guard with rolled quillons and engraved motifs and a copper reinforcing band. Famed arms historian Charles Buttin (1856-1831) states, ?Trenck armed his Pandours with this composite [form of] weapon and his [own sword] was like that of his men. A very rare weapon, almost unknown in Western European collections. In 50 years of research, we have found but four examples.?C. Buttin, Catalogue de la Collection D?ArmesAnciennesEuropeennes et Orientales:, (Rumilly, 1933, p. 73, # 217.) The Pandurs(or Pandours, free Serbian and Croatian guardsmen) fought under the Austrians during the War of Austrian Succession. They, and the Baron von Trenck under whom they served, were noted for their reckless ferocity and skill. First half of the 18th century. Some wear, one langet chipped. Overall length 89 cm .Condition II