MACES
AN INDIAN MACE, the silvered iron head with nine shaped flanges surmounted by a spike, one flange fitted with a crescentic blade, on spirally fluted steel haft, the silvered hilt of firangi type with gilt borders (silvering incomplete), 17th/18th Century; an Eastern European mace with flanged garlic-shaped head (some flanges missing), on tubular steel haft, 17th Century; a Chinese mace (tau-kien) with tapering four-stage steel bar of octagonal section, and brass-mounted hilt with wooden handle carved with Chinese lions and birds amid foliage, 19th Century; a Persian all-steel mace, the silver-damascened head formed as a bull's head, on etched steel haft, 19th Century; a mace with etched rounded head, on wooden haft partly covered in velvet; and a cast-iron mace head

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AN INDIAN MACE, the silvered iron head with nine shaped flanges surmounted by a spike, one flange fitted with a crescentic blade, on spirally fluted steel haft, the silvered hilt of firangi type with gilt borders (silvering incomplete), 17th/18th Century; an Eastern European mace with flanged garlic-shaped head (some flanges missing), on tubular steel haft, 17th Century; a Chinese mace (tau-kien) with tapering four-stage steel bar of octagonal section, and brass-mounted hilt with wooden handle carved with Chinese lions and birds amid foliage, 19th Century; a Persian all-steel mace, the silver-damascened head formed as a bull's head, on etched steel haft, 19th Century; a mace with etched rounded head, on wooden haft partly covered in velvet; and a cast-iron mace head
The first 35½in. (6)

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