AN INDIAN SABRE in European fashion, with elaborately watered curved single-edged blade deeply struck on one face of the forte with a mark, a katar, the iron hilt of Mameluke form entirely overlaid with parcel-gilt silver engraved with a design of flowerheads and foliage against a punched granular ground, and comprising quillons with short langets and button terminals, and rounded grip with pommel pierced for a sword-knot, in original iron scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, and with two rings for suspension, 19th Century

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AN INDIAN SABRE in European fashion, with elaborately watered curved single-edged blade deeply struck on one face of the forte with a mark, a katar, the iron hilt of Mameluke form entirely overlaid with parcel-gilt silver engraved with a design of flowerheads and foliage against a punched granular ground, and comprising quillons with short langets and button terminals, and rounded grip with pommel pierced for a sword-knot, in original iron scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, and with two rings for suspension, 19th Century
29¼in. blade

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