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AN OTTOMAN SURMENE DAGGER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN SURMENE DAGGER
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 dark horn hilt eared and studded with brass nails, the broad blade finely fullered on the right face, with a single fuller on the left. In its silver covered in nielloed geometrical and vinework motifs entirely, with upturned finial set with a coral. Named for the town near Trabzon on the Black Sea whence this form originated. Mid-19th century.Worn.Overall length 48 cm.
Condition III