AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PUNJAB with tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip and a series of converging fullers, decorated with silver koftgari scrolls and foliage in a panel at the forte on each face, iron hilt formed of a pair of slender iron side bars, three slender grip bars each tapering from the centre and terminating in a low conical finial on the outermost face of the side bars, decorated throughout in plated silver (rubbed) with a running pattern of foliage 20.3 cm; 8 in blade A katar with a related hilt is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (acc. no. XXVID.52).