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Lot 38
An Indian Chilanum
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £324 inc. premium
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With distinctly watered slightly recurved single-edged blade damascened in gold with a foliate motif on one side, characteristic steel hilt flared out above and below a central compressed spherical feature and decorated overall with silver-damascened foliage against a ground of gold scrollwork and surmounted by a silver-gilt gourd-shaped finial, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with pierced locket and chape en suite with the hilt
15.5 cm. blade
15.5 cm. blade








