AN INDIAN KATAR with slightly curved double-edged watered blade (slight pitting) with medial ridge, reinforced towards the point, and chiselled on both sides at the forte with a panel damascened with gold foliage (worn), iron hilt with baluster handles damascened with gold foliage, and long slender guards entirely gold-damascened with Gurhmukhi script, in associated green velvet-covered wooden scabbard (worn) with pierced iron chape gold-damascened with a bold design of foliage, 18th Century