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A Group Of Eastern DaggersMostly 19th Century
24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £832 inc. premium
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A Group Of Eastern Daggers
Mostly 19th Century
Mostly 19th Century
Comprising a Caucasian kindjal with double-edge blade (patches of rust and pitting) cut with an off-set fuller along each side, one side gold-damascened with a cartouche and a panel of arabesques with bird's head terminal on each side, waisted walrus-ivory grip with silver basal mount embossed with foliage, and two gold-damascened studs on the outside each on a washer en suite, in its wooden scabbard partly covered in velvet (faded) with steel suspension mount damascened with gold arabesques on the outside; a Nepalese kukri (ivory hilt removed), in its original wooden scabbard covered in black velvet with silver locket and chape embossed and chased with designs of running foliage, and retaining its silver suspension chain of disc-shaped links; an Afghan choora of characteristic form, with bright sharply-pointed blade, white-metal mounted beaked hilt chased with flower-heads, and rounded ivory grip-scales, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard (leather incomplete) with brass locket and chape embossed en suite with the hilt; a Sumatran kris, with waved pattern-welded blade, and wooden Garuda hilt, in its wooden scabbard; a North African all-brass dagger; and a pair of Nepalese kukri side-knives, in their purple velvet scabbard (faded) (6)
The first 36 cm. blade
The first 36 cm. blade








