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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL
RUSSIAN SILVER MARKS
With tapering double-edged blade etched with scrolls within the fullers and inlaid in brass with an Arabic inscription on one side at the forte, the engraved and nielloed silver-mounted hilt with horn grip-scales, in original black shagreen-covered wooden scabbard with deep locket and chape engraved and nielloed with designs of scrolling foliage on the outside, the inside of the locket engraved with owner's initials in Georgian
22¾in. (57.7cm.)
RUSSIAN SILVER MARKS
With tapering double-edged blade etched with scrolls within the fullers and inlaid in brass with an Arabic inscription on one side at the forte, the engraved and nielloed silver-mounted hilt with horn grip-scales, in original black shagreen-covered wooden scabbard with deep locket and chape engraved and nielloed with designs of scrolling foliage on the outside, the inside of the locket engraved with owner's initials in Georgian
22¾in. (57.7cm.)