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AN ITALIAN M 1888 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:300.00 - 500.00 USD
AN ITALIAN M 1888 CAVALRY OFFICER’S 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...
A private purchase sword, with broad steel backstrap and three-bar hilt, with flattened, rolled quillon, the ebony grip with fingerstalls. The superior damascus steel blade wrought in a finely detailed Ladder Pattern, with broadened, fullered clipped tip, marked W. CLAUBERG IN SOLINGEN at the forte in elaborate gilded panels, together with a pseudo-Arabic inscription in a rectangular cartouche. With associated sword knot. In its steel scabbard. Late 19th century. Minor dents to scabbard. Overall length 103.8 cm.
Condition II