EASTERN EDGED WEAPONS VARIOUS PROPERTIES
AN INDIAN AXE entirely of watered steel, with robust head and square peen, the blade with cusped inner edge, the borders finely damascened throughout with flowers and foliage in gold; another, with brass-inlaid blade, and wooden haft; another, silver-mounted and with curved slender double-edged blade; a tungi; and a lohar, 18th and 19th Century

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AN INDIAN AXE entirely of watered steel, with robust head and square peen, the blade with cusped inner edge, the borders finely damascened throughout with flowers and foliage in gold; another, with brass-inlaid blade, and wooden haft; another, silver-mounted and with curved slender double-edged blade; a tungi; and a lohar, 18th and 19th Century
13¾in. to 27½in. (5)

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