AN INDIAN DAGGER with finely watered slightly curved double-edged blade with medial ridge on both sides, the waisted grey-green hilt of oval section decorated at the top and bottom with a band of gold foliage set with rubies between gold lines (seven rubies and some gold missing), the pommel with button finial decorated with a gold-set ruby, in later red textile-covered wooden scabbard embroidered with gilt thread, 18th Century

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AN INDIAN DAGGER with finely watered slightly curved double-edged blade with medial ridge on both sides, the waisted grey-green hilt of oval section decorated at the top and bottom with a band of gold foliage set with rubies between gold lines (seven rubies and some gold missing), the pommel with button finial decorated with a gold-set ruby, in later red textile-covered wooden scabbard embroidered with gilt thread, 18th Century
15 7/8in.

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