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AN INDIAN KHANDA SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
AN INDIAN KHANDA 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 characteristic steel Hindu baskethilt with backspike, fitted with a massive saber blade which shows evidence of damascus steel forging, with chamfered edges and thrusting tip, struck at the forte and spine with profuse Devanagari arsenal designations. Mid-18th century.Overall length 116 cm.
Condition II