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An Indian (Mahratta) Axe (Buckie)19th Century, Kolapore
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £600 inc. premium
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19th Century, Kolapore
19th Century, Kolapore
With robust slightly downbent triangular axe-blade with crescentic cutting-edge, block-shaped peen also forming the socket and surmounted by a tapering spike of square section, and decorated overall with silver-damascened foliage within double line borders, the sides encrusted with copper flower-heads, on original hardwood haft of circular section with turned spherical terminal and secured over half its length at the top by six transverse iron nails on brass florette-shaped washers
13 cm. head
13 cm. head
Footnotes
For a similar example see The Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ..., 1880, p. 115, no. 474, pl. X








