**AN INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade, characteristic iron hilt including a pair of shaped panels extending over the base of the blade, embossed over its outer surface with a pair of monstrous eyes and reinforced around the borders and over the hand with shaped panels, the sides of the wrist fitted with five pair of loops each carrying a rattle (two missing), wooden grip bar, and iron arm support 86.5 cm; 34 in blade Provenance The Museum archives record this as an anonymous gift 1 February 1934 JWHA Inv. No. 2061