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AN IRAQI KHANJAR DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:350.00 - 450.00 USD
AN IRAQI KHANJAR DAGGER
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...
of characteristic form, the horn grip mounted with domed bosses, the double-edged blade with light curvature and raised central ridge. Scabbard wrought entirely in silver, superbly engraved and nielloed overall, with a gilded Ottoman coin applied to the locket. Pommel chipped. Late19th century. Overall length 40.5 cm.
Condition II