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An Indian AxeLate 18th/Early 19th Century, Probably Sind
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,440 inc. premium
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Late 18th/Early 19th Century, Probably Sind
Late 18th/Early 19th Century, Probably Sind
With robust iron head with crescentic cutting-edge and decorated with a diaper pattern of punched silver-gilt flowerheads against a punched stippled ground, angular socket and waisted block-shaped peen en suite, on tubular three-stage haft divided by roped mouldings, the mid-section decorated with punched scrolling flowering foliage against a stippled ground, the top and bottom sections en suite with the head, the latter with threaded bud-shaped finial opening to reveal a slender single-edged knife-blade
13 cm. head
13 cm. head








