An Arab shamshir, the hilt damascened with a star motif and scrolling foliage, with watered-steel curved blade, leather and metal-mounted scabbard -- 41in.long, the blade probably 17th century.

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An Arab shamshir, the hilt damascened with a star motif and scrolling foliage, with watered-steel curved blade, leather and metal-mounted scabbard -- 41in.long, the blade probably 17th century.

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