A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) SWORD (DHAB), SUKHOTHAI OR AYUTTHAYA, 15TH/18TH CENTURY with single-edged blade formed with a sharp point and widening towards the tip, iron hilt formed of a long ferrule with raised mouldings, terminating in a shaped near rosette-shaped guard, decorated over the greater part of its surface with gold scrollwork, and bronze grip cast with a raised band top and bottom 54.5 cm; 21 1/2 in blade Literature Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour, A Lifetime's Passion, 2013, p. 195, no. 471.