Auctions Imperial 2017 Arms & Armor November
Lot 221:
Description
The weapon par excellence of the many warriors of the Caucasus who emigrated to the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century. The mounts of steel, finely inlaid with gold in flowering vine motifs and geometrical stars, the broad, lightly-curved heirloom blade wrought of actively-patterned black wootz damascus steel and elaborately inlaid in gold with a in Qur’anic inscription including ALLAH! In its velvet covered wooden scabbard mounted en suite with the hilt. Mid-19th century. Blade with areas of pitting. Overall length 89cm. Condition III
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