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A SCOTTISH DIRK

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:600.00 - 700.00 USD
A SCOTTISH DIRK
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...
The staghorn grip with silver pommel and guard, the highly-polished blade with bowie-style clipped tip. In its leather-covered wood scabbard mounted in elaborately wrought silver mounts featuring thistle motifs, each struck W.S. & CO. on the reverse, and retaining its matching staghorn- gripped utensils. Late 19th-early 20th century. Overall length 32.5 cm.
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