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Lot 166Y
An Indian Dagger Of Jambiya Form19th Century
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £720 inc. premium
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19th Century
19th Century
With curved finely watered double-edged blade sharply tapered towards the point of diamond section and cut with a double converging fuller over each side forming a medial ridge, the forte on both sides chiselled with foliage against a punched ground, and tapering steel hilt tri-lobed at the pommel, and with rounded ivory grip en suite, in later velvet-covered wooden scabbard
19 cm. blade
19 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance:
Ralph Pinder-Wilson (1919-2008), a gift from the Nizam of Hyderabad








