A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (SOSSUN PATA), 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PERHAPS BIJAPUR, with curved wootz steel blade double-edged towards the point (small areas of pitting), reinforced along the back-edge with an integral long chiselled panel and a further integral panel enclosing the forte, finely pierced and chiselled iron hilt decorated with foliage and border ornament, comprising a pair of langets, short quillons with mushroom-shaped finials, figure-of-eight shaped guard, broad tapering knuckle-guard with recurved finial, shallow-cup-shaped pommel, angular attenuated button, and solid grip chiselled with symmetrical design of foliage en suite, in wooden scabbard with later leather covering, 73.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C29. Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)