25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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A TURKISH YATAGHAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
with slightly recurved single-edged blade cut with a double narrow fuller along the top on each side, both sides gold-damascened with a long foliate panel containing Arabic inscriptions, almost certainly the owner’s and maker’s names respectively, a shaped silver mount over the forte set with silver diamonds and pellets including a red coral bead (corallium rubrum) on both sides, silver-covered hilt with grip-strap set with red coral and silver beads on filigree settings and against a ground of silver diamonds, and ‘eared’ grips each set on both sides with a red coral bead centred on a filigree and diamond floret, all between twisted silver lines, in original wood-lined silver scabbard embossed and chased overall with a repeated design of symmetrical flowering foliage, the locket with silver beadwork and filigree en suite with the hilt, and with monster-head terminal, 56.0 cm blade
Sold for £6,500
with slightly recurved single-edged blade cut with a double narrow fuller along the top on each side, both sides gold-damascened with a long foliate panel containing Arabic inscriptions, almost certainly the owner’s and maker’s names respectively, a shaped silver mount over the forte set with silver diamonds and pellets including a red coral bead (corallium rubrum) on both sides, silver-covered hilt with grip-strap set with red coral and silver beads on filigree settings and against a ground of silver diamonds, and ‘eared’ grips each set on both sides with a red coral bead centred on a filigree and diamond floret, all between twisted silver lines, in original wood-lined silver scabbard embossed and chased overall with a repeated design of symmetrical flowering foliage, the locket with silver beadwork and filigree en suite with the hilt, and with monster-head terminal, 56.0 cm blade
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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