of steel, with tapering recurved single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel reinforced along the cutting edge and of T-section along the back, hilt decorated overall with repeated gold-damascened flowering foliage and pierced to form the word Nasir (for Helper, one of the names of God), 27.5 cm blade, 43.3 cm overall

For a similar example, see David Alexander, The Arts of War: Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th Centuries, London & Oxford 1992, p. 190, no. 124 (illustrated). Another was sold Bonhams Knightsbridge, 24 November 1999, lot 68.