A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL with tapering double-edged blade of diamond section, the forte with engraved decoration on both sides, and nielloed silver-mounted hilt with horn grip-scales (one repaired), in original leather-covered wooden scabbard almost entirely covered with nielloed silver, the dated locket engraved with owner's name 'Prokoji Matiukov' in cyrillic, dated 1868; and another, the blade cut with a fuller on each side, and decorated on one side with gold-damascened foliage, iron hilt and mounts decorated en suite, and horn grip-scales (scabbard missing), 19th Century