AN INDIAN KATAR, 18TH CENTURY AND AN INDIAN FOLDING KATAR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY the first with strongly tapering fullered blade formed with a reinforced tip and chiselled with foliage on each side at the forte, steel hilt of characteristic form decorated with patterns of silver chevron inside and out (small losses), and with two moulded grip bars; and the second with folding blade cover, and steel hilt decorated throughout with silver scrollwork the first: 38cm; 15in (2) Provenance The first: The P. Holstein Collection, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 8 May 1957, lot 53