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Lot 95

A Silver-Mounted Arab Shamshir
Late 19th Century

25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Silver-Mounted Arab Shamshir
Late 19th Century

With slightly curved fullered blade (areas of rust patination) double-edged towards the point, hilt comprising quillon-block engraved with a diamond-shaped panel of Qur'anic verse in thuluth script against a punched ground on both sides, pointed langets and tapering quillons with button terminals, chased grip-strap and bone grip-scales retained by twisted silver wire binding at the base, and foliate engraved cone-shaped pommel of hexagonal section, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with ovoidal suspension mounts en suite with the quillon-block, and chape embossed and chased with flowering foliage
76.2 cm. blade

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