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IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A LARGE QAJAR WALRUS-IVORY HILTED WATERED-STEEL DAGGER (KHANJAR)
IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with curved double-edged and single-ridge blade with reinforced tip, the hilt inscribed to its ridge and pommel in nasta'liq script, the decoration with gul-o bulbul to one side and a floral spray to the other, original leather sheath with silver mount decorated with fish scale pattern and a floral spray within a half-lobed medallion, together with an ivory-hilted gold-damascened barber's razor with watered-steel blade
16½in. (42cm.) long (2)
IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with curved double-edged and single-ridge blade with reinforced tip, the hilt inscribed to its ridge and pommel in nasta'liq script, the decoration with gul-o bulbul to one side and a floral spray to the other, original leather sheath with silver mount decorated with fish scale pattern and a floral spray within a half-lobed medallion, together with an ivory-hilted gold-damascened barber's razor with watered-steel blade
16½in. (42cm.) long (2)
Special notice
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