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A ZANZIBAR SEYF SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A ZANZIBAR SEYF 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...
A rarely encountered form, the octagonal horn grip with cusped silver ferrule, terminating in a broad, angled pommel set with silver studs, the profiled steel guard with rolled quillon and recurved knucklebow and oval guard with pierced plate. The wide, multifullered blade with radiused tip and back edge. In its wooden scabbard covered in tooled black leather, the large silver mounts well-engraved overall. Retains its woven sling. Latter 18th century. Overall length 100.5 cm.
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