A NIELLOED SILVER-HILTED SABRE with slightly curved single-edged blade back-edged towards the point and cut with four pairs of fullers along the back-edge on each side, the forte inlaid in brass on one side with a roundel containing a verse from the Qur'an, and a tiger, the former between brass-inlaid invocations to Allah in Arabic script, and on the other with a further roundel containing the maker's name 'Suleyman Mu'izzi' and the date (?) 1652, the hilt including asymmetrical quillon-block with bud-shaped terminals linked to the pommel by a knuckle-chain and decorated overall with a chequer design, in wooden scabbard (covering missing) with silver mounts en suite, the blade probably Indian, 17th Century