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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.
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An Indian Jambiya, A Central Asian Kard, And A Turkoman Dagger image 1
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Lot 25*

An Indian Jambiya, A Central Asian Kard, And A Turkoman Dagger
The Second Probably Bukhara, All 19th Century

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Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Indian Jambiya, A Central Asian Kard, And A Turkoman Dagger
The Second Probably Bukhara, All 19th Century

The first with broad curved double-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel cut with two recessed fullers over each side forming a medial ridge to the brightly polished point of diamond section, the forte on both sides chiselled with gold-damascened foliage against a punched ground, and steel hilt (grips missing) decorated overall with damascened engraved gold foliage and comprising pinched-in basal mount and trefoil-shaped pommel, the latter with small finial, in later velvet-covered scabbard with silvered copper chape embossed with foliage; the second with single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel, and pinched-in silver basal mount nielloed with foliage (grip missing), in its velvet-covered leather scabbard with deep silver locket and chape each embossed with symmetrical arabesques on the outside, the former with suspension loop on the inside and retaining its velvet-covered leather suspension strap with tassels; the last with single-edged wootz steel blade roughly incised with the date 1197 A.H. corresponding to 1782 A.D. on one side at the forte, seamed white-metal hilt of tapering circular section decorated with wrigglework, and domed parcel-gilt pommel, in its silver scabbard of tapering circular section decorated with trellised foliage and running arabesques between plain silver bands, the latter securing the suspension mount and loop, and locket cast with a petalled band above a band of trefoils; together with an Uzbeck silk-backed belt embroidered with a geometric design in coloured threads, the mounts including a white-metal buckle set with a carnelian (4)
21 cm., 24.5 cm. and 17.8 cm. blades

Footnotes

Oliver S. Pinchot, The Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2014, p. 38, figs. 3-49 and 3-51, and p. 44, fig. 3-77

For an almost identical example of the first formerly in the George Cameron Stone Collection and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see George Cameron Stone, A Glossary Of The Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor..., 1934, p. 313, fig. 46

Saleroom notices

The illustration for the first item in this lot is at the top right hand corner of page 13 in the catalogue

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.