AN INDO-PERSIAN PESH-KABZ with sharply-pointed curved single-edged blade reinforced and double-edged towards the point, and with medial ridge on both sides terminating in a chiselled and gold-damascened panel of arabesques, reinforced along the back-edge at the forte with a shaped panel chiselled and gold-damascened with foliage, curved iron hilt damascened with panels of gold foliage, walrus-ivory grip-scales of plano-convex section, and small iron swivel finial (iron parts with areas of pitting, damascening worn in places), probably 18th Century