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A SOUTH INDIAN FLAMBOYANT SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
A SOUTH INDIAN FLAMBOYANT 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...
The finely-wrought baskethilt with lengthy gripspike terminating in a lotus bud with long langets as is typical, chiseled overall with intricately dentated borders and silvered. The exceptionally robust, recurved blade with T-back, deeply bellied, with upturned tip and chamfered cutting edge, showing evidence of pattern-welded construction. First half of the 17th century. Light wear, losses to silver. Overall length 64.4 cm.
Condition III