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AN OTTOMAN SABER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN 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
The rhino grips with original woven wrap and rolled pommel, the silver guard engraved with Ottoman baroque borders. The broad, lightly-curved, single-edged heirloom blade of classical form, forged of fine Persian black wootz steel and inlaid at the right forte with two cartouches containing the name and titles of Shah Abbas of Iran, ABBAS BANDE-E VILAYET [two Safavid shahs bore the name Abbas: Abbas I, r. 1588-1629, Abbas II, r. 1642-1666] and signed WORK OF ASSAD ALLAH. The shagreen leather-covered wooden scabbard with characteristic coiled seam and steel suspension bands with gold-inlaid borders. First half of the 18th century. Minor wear to scabbard. Overall length 95 cm.Condition II