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Lot 52

A Persian Shamshir
Qajar, 19th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Persian Shamshir
Qajar, 19th Century

With curved single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel, the forte on one side with two gold-inlaid cartouches (gold mostly missing) inscribed 'Work of Asadullah' in nas-ta'liq, steel quillon-block with pointed largets and tapering quillons each with button terminal, and the grip and pommel covered in silver-gilt embossed with vertical rows of running arabesques against a punched ground
84 cm. blade

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