Lot Essay
Two similar Qajar daggers bearing the same inscription are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One is published in George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor, In All Countries and in All Times, New York, 1999, no.37, fig.396, p.313. The other is published online, https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/25032.