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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 1,700.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD
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 steel hilt with grip of octagonal section and angled pommel with broad guard, lavishly inlaid in gold with rumi motifs throughout. The long, recurved blade forged of fine Turkish twistcoredamascus steel, with gold-inlaid inscriptions in the central fuller calling upon Allah and ?Ali, together with a cartouche containing the numeral 7 three times, referring to Sura 77:7, ASSUREDLY, WHAT YE ARE PROMISED MUST COME TO PASS. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard with steel mounts inlaid with gold en suite with the hilt. Retains its original woven silver sling.Late 18th-early 19th century.Overall length 86.8 cm.
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