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AN INDIAN SHAMSHIR SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
AN INDIAN  SHAMSHIR 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 hilt of Persianate form, forged entirely of steel and lavishly inlaid overall in gold vinework with Arabic inscriptions. The curved, single-edged blade of actively-patterned wootz damascus steel , the forte elaborately inlaid in gold on either side in geometrical vinework panels with Arabic inscriptions including, ALLAH! In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard embossed silver chape. 19th century. Overall length 91.8 cm.
Condition II