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A SECRET SOCIETY RITUAL SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
A SECRET SOCIETY RITUAL 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...
Heavy bronze grip ribbed with fully modelled lionhead pommel. Massive recurved pipeback blade, double-edged at tip. Engraved with a skull between crossed scythes, flanked by the astrological signs for Leo and Libra, above the Greek character omega, with a deific hand pointing from a shining sun at either side. Mid-19th century. Overall length 61.7.
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