24th Jun, 2009 10:00

Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 45
 

45

AN INDIAN DAGGER

AN INDIAN DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade of watered steel, reinforced at the tip and cut with a pair of broad fullers on each side, decorated with gold koftgari flowers and foliage at the forte, steel hilt decorated en suite, formed of a moulded ferrule rising to a shaped pommel, and fitted with a pair of figured ivory grip-scales each retained by three nails, in a later fabric-covered wooden scabbard 31cm; 12 1/8in

Sold for £750


 
AN INDIAN DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade of watered steel, reinforced at the tip and cut with a pair of broad fullers on each side, decorated with gold koftgari flowers and foliage at the forte, steel hilt decorated en suite, formed of a moulded ferrule rising to a shaped pommel, and fitted with a pair of figured ivory grip-scales each retained by three nails, in a later fabric-covered wooden scabbard 31cm; 12 1/8in