A MUGHAL GEMSET AND GOLD COVERED STEEL DAGGER HANDLE in the form of a horse's head, the mane falling to one side in separate tresses, the bridle and two collars inset with foiled red corundum and occasional foiled green beryl, the eyes similar with corundums, a band of drop-shaped inset panels along the back of the neck terminating in a similar quatrefoil, 18th century (slightly rubbed, a very few stones missing)

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A MUGHAL GEMSET AND GOLD COVERED STEEL DAGGER HANDLE in the form of a horse's head, the mane falling to one side in separate tresses, the bridle and two collars inset with foiled red corundum and occasional foiled green beryl, the eyes similar with corundums, a band of drop-shaped inset panels along the back of the neck terminating in a similar quatrefoil, 18th century (slightly rubbed, a very few stones missing)
5¾in. (14.6cm.) long

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