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A rare Ottoman silver-hilted steel Sword and embossed leather Scabbard (yataghan) Caucasus and Turkey, dated AH 1136/ AD 1723-24(2) image 1
A rare Ottoman silver-hilted steel Sword and embossed leather Scabbard (yataghan) Caucasus and Turkey, dated AH 1136/ AD 1723-24(2) image 2
Lot 210

A rare Ottoman silver-hilted steel Sword and embossed leather Scabbard (yataghan)
Caucasus and Turkey, dated AH 1136/ AD 1723-24
(2)

10 April 2008, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,000 inc. premium

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A rare Ottoman silver-hilted steel Sword and embossed leather Scabbard (yataghan)
Caucasus and Turkey, dated AH 1136/ AD 1723-24

the blade curved at the tip, the hilt densely decorated with repoussé floral, rococo and trophies of war motifs, the central leather cartouche embossed and containing a tughra, the shahadah and the bismallah, the silver sections of the scabbard with bands of continuous floral interlace
with scabbard 92 cm. long(2)

Footnotes

Exhibited:
Naissance et Evolution de L'Ecriture, Société Générale de Banque, Brussels, 8th November 1984 to 3rd January 1985 and Banque Générale du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 16th January to 6th March 1985.

The tughra is of Sultan Ahmed III, AH 1115-43/ AD 1703-30.

A similar yataghan was sold at Sotheby's, The Turkish Sale, 1998, London, lot 95.

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