with replacement double-edged blade cut with two central fullers forming a shallow ridge over each side to the point, and widening at the forte to form a disc cut with an incomplete circle on one side, russet iron hilt with tapering langet on both sides (one terminal missing, the other replaced) secured by a transverse rivet on petalled washers, integral grip swelling at the centre between pairs of stylised parrot-heads forming the quillons and pommel respectively, the latter surmounted by an associated spherical finial (old rust patination), 58.8 cm blade

For other examples of this rare type see Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Chicago 2004, p. 123, fig. 11.24, and Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, St Peter Port 2013, p. 71, figs. 153-155.