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AN INDIAN SOSUN PATTAH SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
AN INDIAN SOSUN PATTAH SWORD
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
The steel hilt of shamshir form, terminating in a parrot?s head, with recurved knucklebow and fine floral sprays inlaid in gold overall. The blade of characteristic recurved and bellied form with upswept tip, and complex fullering and gold inlays to either side, and a textured surface evoking wootz.With its velvet-covered wooden scabbard.Early 19th century.Overall length 83 cm.
Condition II