AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 18TH CENTURY with strongly tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip, a pair of converging fullers divided by slender ridge-lines and decorated with a central panel of delicate foliage on a finely watered ground, hilt of characteristic form including a pair of shaped grip-bars joined by a pair of delicate scrollwork bars, the side bars chiselled on each side with delicate foliage en suite with the blade, with bouquets of flowers top and bottom, and retaining much early gold finish, in an early fabric-covered wooden scabbard (light wear) 25.0 cm; 9 7/8 in blade