A TURKISH SHAMSHIR with finely watered curved single-edged blade decorated on one side at the forte with gold-damascened panels containing Arabic script, and on the other with gold-damascened arabesques, horn hilt of characteristic form, and including watered steel quillons with button terminals and grip-strap damascened with gold scrollwork (the former rubbed), in later black leather-covered wooden scabbard with steel mounts damascened with gold foliage, 19th Century