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A RARE TIBETAN KE-TRI SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 800.00 USD
A RARE TIBETAN KE-TRI SWORD
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 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 also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
With trilobate iron pommel mounted with a finely-embossed silver plaque set with a large coral, the waisted grip covered in tooled hide, with profiled steel guard. The typical blade straight, broad and single-edged with radiused tip, its hairpin pattern-welded construction visible. The wooden scabbard covered in leather, with large silver mounts finely embossed and engraved, the chape likewise set with a coral. Mid-late 19th century.Overall length 56 cm. Condition I