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Lot 99Ф,Y
A Large Kindjal, A Chinese Short Sword, And A Persian Double-Headed AxeAll 19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £600 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Large Kindjal, A Chinese Short Sword, And A Persian Double-Headed Axe
All 19th Century
All 19th Century
The first with broad tapering double-edged blade with deep off-set fuller along most of its length on each side, one side etched with an amusing landscape scene involving two hares, one pursuing a hound and the other smoking a pipe, and two sportsmen pursued by a tiger, and along the other with partially erased erotic scenes, foliage and the initials 'L.D.', ivory-mounted hilt comprising flat ovoidal guard, and rounded grips beaked at the pommel; the second with double-edged blade inlaid with copper dots linked together by incised lines, brass-mounted hilt with cast decoration, and dark horn grip, in its wooden scabbard covered in green-stained fish skin with pierced brass locket and chape en suite with the hilt; the last entirely of russet steel, with crescentic axe-blades etched on both sides with Persian figures seated either side of a tree and retaining faint traces of gold damascening, on tubular steel haft cut with pairs of spiral lines at the midsection (3)
The first 52 cm. blade
The first 52 cm. blade








