Lot 169:
A KUBAN COSSACK KINDJAL DAGGER
Description
The horn grips mounted in nielloed silver, the locket and chape on the leather-covered wooden scabbard mounted en suite, with KKB for Kuban Kazak Voisko worked on the obverse of the locket, the reverse with silver mark. The blade with two narrow fullers flanked by two broad ones on either side, and etched at the obverse forte KKB within a foliate-bordered cartouche, and the reverse with matching cartouche containing the Cyrillic characters ZOF for Zlatoust Oruzhenaya Fabrika above 1905 together with control marks AA for Tsar Alexander III (r. 1881-1894 c.e.) Dated 1905. Worn, blade pitted. Overall length 51.8cm./ 20 3/8 inches. Condition III
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