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Lot 165*

An Indian All-Metal Axe
19th Century, Probably Kutch

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Indian All-Metal Axe
19th Century, Probably Kutch

With steel head with crescentric cutting-edge and decorated over both sides with chased silver-gilt flower-heads and foliage against a punched silver ground, faceted socket and waisted block-shaped peen en suite, tubular haft in three stages decorated en suite with the head, and with threaded chased silver-gilt terminal with bud-shaped terminal and opening to reveal a slender double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section; together with an Indian kora, late 19th century, with characteristic single-edged blade widening to a 'fish-tail' point, chiselled along both sides with foliage and deities, one in encrusted brass, and hilt of tulwar form without knuckle-guard; a Balinese kris, 19th century, with slightly waved pattern-welded blade, silver mendak embossed with foliage and figured Garuda hilt, in its scabbard with characteristic sarongan; a pipe tomahawk in Native American Indian style, with bronze head of characteristic form cast with a crescent moon and four stars on one side, on wooden haft partly bound with copper wire and also forming the pipe-stem; and a WWII period F-S fighting knife, with swelling ribbed copper grip, in its leather scabbard with copper chape and leather suspension tabs (5)
The first 13 cm. head

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