A RARE CEYLONESE KASTANE with short curved single-edged blade of brass, the hilt of horn elaborately carved in relief with characteristic monster's head, the grip set with panels of tortoiseshell pierced and engraved with foliage, the knuckle-guard, quillons and langets all with monster-head finials and carved with foliage in low relief, in tortoiseshell scabbard set with panels of pierced tortoiseshell engraved on one side with a design of interlaced leaves, and on the other with foliage inhabited by birds (some minor damage and losses, scabbard incomplete), probably 18th Century