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Lot 32

An Arab Sword (Kattara)
19th Century, Probably Omani Or Zanzibari

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £600 inc. premium

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An Arab Sword (Kattara)
19th Century, Probably Omani Or Zanzibari

With earlier broad double-edged blade with central fuller and incised with a mark on each side of the forte, leather-covered grip of tapering ovoidal section bound with silver-wire netting, and tall octagonal pommel pierced with a circular hole for a thong, in original wood-lined leather scabbard (minor damage) tooled with line decoration and with English silver locket and open silver chape, each engraved with designs of foliage and struck with London hallmarks for 1882-3, maker's mark of Thomas Johnson, and with two iron mounts each carrying a ring for suspension
85 cm. blade

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Thomas Johnson is known to have worked on special commissions for Asprey

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