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AN AFGHAN SABER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:275.00 - 375.00 USD
AN AFGHAN SABER
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 rare type, displaying design characteristics derived from both Central Asian sabers and the Cossack shashka, with wooden grips and steel bolster, the heavy, single-edged blade with broad central fuller and traces of a struck maker’s mark at the right forte. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard with elaborate filigreed silver mount set with corals. Second half of the 19th century. Well worn. Overall length 96.1 cm.
Condition III