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AN INDIAN DAGGER
AN INDIAN DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY
with recurved double-edged blade formed with a reinforced tip (one very small chip and lamination) and cut with a pair of long fullers on each side, decorated at the forte with a narrow panel of gold koftgari along the edges, shaped steel hilt formed with a bird's head pommel, decorated over its full surface with numerous expanded flowerheads within a trellis pattern of leaves, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard (worn)
35.5cm; 14in
Sold for £800
AN INDIAN DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY
with recurved double-edged blade formed with a reinforced tip (one very small chip and lamination) and cut with a pair of long fullers on each side, decorated at the forte with a narrow panel of gold koftgari along the edges, shaped steel hilt formed with a bird's head pommel, decorated over its full surface with numerous expanded flowerheads within a trellis pattern of leaves, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard (worn)
35.5cm; 14in