SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
With tapering blade etched with a faux watered pattern within the pair of fullers on both sides, and the outer face struck with two maker's marks, carved ivory hilt mounted in silver, and in its original leather covered wooden scabbard, with large silver mounts chased with scrollwork heightened in niello
57.2 cm.
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
With tapering blade etched with a faux watered pattern within the pair of fullers on both sides, and the outer face struck with two maker's marks, carved ivory hilt mounted in silver, and in its original leather covered wooden scabbard, with large silver mounts chased with scrollwork heightened in niello
57.2 cm.
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