3rd Dec, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria. December 2025
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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN, TURKEY, DATED 1217 A.H. CORRESPONDING TO 1805 A.D., PROBABLY FOCA
with slightly recurved single-edged blade cut with a narrow fuller along the back on each side and inlaid along most of its length on both sides with silver scrollwork and dots, one side enclosing panels inscribed with the date, maker’s name ‘Al-Hajj’, owner’s name ‘Hussain Agha’ and two Turkish couplets, all in thuluth, and on the other with further couplets in praise of the yataghan, a shaped silver mount over the forte set with silver diamonds and pellets enriched with a red coral bead on a filigree rosette, all between twisted silver lines, in original wooden scabbard covered in black leather with silver locket and chape, the former entirely set with bands of clustered beaded ropework and diamonds, the latter chased with designs of foliage and with a monster-head terminal, 56.0 cm blade
Provenance
Bonhams Knightsbridge, Easter Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 56
A similar example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. M.964-1928). See North 1985, p. 26, fig. 157.
Sold for £2,400
with slightly recurved single-edged blade cut with a narrow fuller along the back on each side and inlaid along most of its length on both sides with silver scrollwork and dots, one side enclosing panels inscribed with the date, maker’s name ‘Al-Hajj’, owner’s name ‘Hussain Agha’ and two Turkish couplets, all in thuluth, and on the other with further couplets in praise of the yataghan, a shaped silver mount over the forte set with silver diamonds and pellets enriched with a red coral bead on a filigree rosette, all between twisted silver lines, in original wooden scabbard covered in black leather with silver locket and chape, the former entirely set with bands of clustered beaded ropework and diamonds, the latter chased with designs of foliage and with a monster-head terminal, 56.0 cm blade
Provenance
Bonhams Knightsbridge, Easter Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 56
A similar example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. M.964-1928). See North 1985, p. 26, fig. 157.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria. December 2025, 3rd Dec, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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