A RARE INDIAN SWORD (PATA) WITH CARVED WOODEN HILT, PROBABLY MYSORE 17TH/18TH CENTURY, with straight blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long fuller along the back-edge, threaded tang retained by a nut inside the hilt, wooden hilt carved in the round as a gaping Yali head, with some early red stain and seven sharp 'teeth', bulging eyes and a scrolling mane, incorporating a pair of shaped iron langets enclosing the forte, a turned wooden grip-bar and a single shaped iron bar at the top, 86.3 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C118. Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)