**AN INDO-PERSIAN DAGGER (KARD), 19TH CENTURY with etched single-edged blade, decorated with gold koftgari scrollwork on each face at the forte, slender steel hilt rising to a beaked pommel, decorated with gold en suite with the forte, in its wooden scabbard covered with blue fabric (areas of wear), with gold locket and chape decorated with matching designs of scrolls, the former fitted with a loop for suspension 33cm; 13in