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Lot 37
A Singhalese Gilt-Mounted KastanaLate 19th Century
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £1,800
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Late 19th Century
Late 19th Century
Similar to the last, with slender slightly curved single-edged blade (some pitting, extreme tip missing), heavy hilt set with gilt panels and embossed and chased with scrollwork and foliage (demon's mask missing from knuckle-guard), and dragon-head pommel with gold-set garnet eyes, bared teeth and gilt tongue, in original wood-lined silver scabbard finely embossed and chased with a symmetrical design of flowering foliage along each side, rounded chape with button terminal and embossed with scrolling foliage, and four fixed rings for suspension
33.5 cm. blade
33.5 cm. blade








