A SWORD in Italian late 14th Century style, with flat tapering double-edged blade cut with a shallow fuller running over half its length on both sides, etched with a mark, a cross in a circle , and inscribed in pseudo-Nashki script on both sides at the forte, and forte etched on one side with the Ottoman (St. Irene) arsenal mark and with running wolf mark, slightly arched spatulate quillons, brass disc-shaped pommel with convex sides, and leather-covered wooden grip

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A SWORD in Italian late 14th Century style, with flat tapering double-edged blade cut with a shallow fuller running over half its length on both sides, etched with a mark, a cross in a circle , and inscribed in pseudo-Nashki script on both sides at the forte, and forte etched on one side with the Ottoman (St. Irene) arsenal mark and with running wolf mark, slightly arched spatulate quillons, brass disc-shaped pommel with convex sides, and leather-covered wooden grip
35¼in. blade

Lot Essay

The inscriptions appear to be copied from a sword in the Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia, No. 325, and read in translation: 'Unalienable bequest of the store-house, in the frontier city of Sikandarîya' and 'From what has been brought during the days of our Master, Chief of the emirs, al-Saifî Aristây'

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