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Lot 108Ф,Y

An Ottoman Dagger
19th Century, Probably Trabzon

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Ottoman Dagger
19th Century, Probably Trabzon

With long sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened oval section cut with three slender lines converging towards the point over most of its length on each side, the forte with characteristic chiselled decoration on both sides involving a line of arrowhead-shaped motifs, hilt with waisted rounded walrus-ivory grips each with medial band and mounted with two gilt-metal filigree roundels set with fluted red corals, and with grip-strap en suite, in original wooden scabbard covered in silver (some damage) embossed and chased with panels of foliage against a chequered ground, the gilt filigree locket and twisted wire-bound chape set with fluted red corals on the outside en suite with the hilt (some corals missing)
37 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
A.E. Christensen Collection

Literature:
Ada Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Gammelt Jern, E.A. Christensens Våbensamling, 1968, cat. no. 210, 232, 244 and 245, fig. 60

For a similar dagger see Bonhams, London, Islamic and Indian Art..., 8 April 2014, lot 177. See also Robert Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour..., 2013, p. 93, no. 216

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