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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