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INDIA AND IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
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TWO GOLD-DAMASCENED SWORDS
INDIA AND IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a firangi, the open-work knuckle guard hilt gold-damascened with dense floral decoration, the European multi-fullered blue steel blade decorated with standing figures, floral sprays, trophies and a seated lion brandishing a sword, stamped to the spine with a star-shaped motif ; and a single fuller curved blade sword, the hilt in the shape of a stylised bird, the quillons worked as mythical beasts, the blade inscribed willayat Shah Tahmasp in a cusped medallion
The longest 42in. (107cm.) long (2)
INDIA AND IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Comprising a firangi, the open-work knuckle guard hilt gold-damascened with dense floral decoration, the European multi-fullered blue steel blade decorated with standing figures, floral sprays, trophies and a seated lion brandishing a sword, stamped to the spine with a star-shaped motif ; and a single fuller curved blade sword, the hilt in the shape of a stylised bird, the quillons worked as mythical beasts, the blade inscribed willayat Shah Tahmasp in a cusped medallion
The longest 42in. (107cm.) long (2)