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A RARE PERSIAN KARD DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 900.00 USD
A RARE PERSIAN 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
A large example, the hilt with staghorn grips cut with ridges, and fitted with a hinged toggle, the heavy, single-edged blade wrought of actively-patterned Persian wootz, and forged with a groove containing captured steel balls which move when the dagger is wielded, a very rare characteristic known as the Tears of the Wounded. Mid-18th century. Light wear. Overall length 51 cm.
Condition II