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A Balkan Yataghan19th Century
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £625 inc. premium
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19th Century
19th Century
With slightly recurved single-edged blade engraved with a panel of foliage along one side enclosing a deeply struck bladesmith's mark and inscribed with pseudo inscriptions, and on the other with an urn of flowers above foliage and involving the date 1205 A.H., star in a roundel bearing the same date below, shaped white-metal mount over each side of the forte cast with foliage, and white-metal grip with 'eared' pommel cast overall with cartouche-shaped panels of foliage en suite, in its wooden scabbard now covered in dark brown velvet with pierced silver-gilt locket and chape each embossed and chased with designs of foliage
52.5 cm. blade
52.5 cm. blade








