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AN OTTOMAN PALA SABER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:900.00 USD Estimated At:1,800.00 - 2,000.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN PALA SABER
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
Of classic form, the grips with rolled pommel and silver mounts, elegantly engraved with Ottoman geometrical motif borders and circular cartouches containing Arabic inscriptions. The broad, T-section blade wrought actively-grained wootzdamascus steel, rarely encountered, with narrow fuller at the spine, the yelman with chiseled panel and gold inlay. With rubbed gold inlaid motifs at the forte and a cartouche at the right containing the maker?s name, ASSAD ALLAH and ?ALI IBN [AL-] TALIB. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard, the silver mounts decorated en suite with the hilt, the lengthy coiled seam intact. Mid-18th century. Light wear overall. Overall length 84.4 cm.
Condition II