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A RARE ZAND DYNASTY PERSIAN KARD DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
A RARE ZAND DYNASTY 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
The grip carved from a single section of translucent amber, with a pale coral set into the pommel. The fine Persian black wootz ladder pattern blade with chiseled panels at the forte depicting flowering vines, and an inlaid owner?s name, HASSAN IBN ?ALI, likewise the name of the gransdson of the Prophet Muhammad, and the 2nd Imam of Shi?a Islam. In its wooden scabbard covered in 18th century Chinese silk. Latter 19th century.Overall length 30 cm.
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