Lot 14A
  • 14A

An Indo-Persian dagger, pesh-kabz,late 18th / 19th century

Estimate
200 - 300 GBP
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Description

  • the first 46cm.; 18¼in.
with straight single-edged blade of T-section, steel hilt incorporating a plain back-strap, and a pair of bone grip-scales each retained by three steel rivets, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with bulbous tip; together with another, similar in its leather-covered wooden scabbard; and another, late 18th / 19th century, with slightly recurved single-edged blade of T-section, steel hilt incorporating a pierced ferrule at the base, and fitted with a pair of horn grip-scales retained by three steel rivets, in its wooden scabbard encased in tooled sheet brass (the first two with light surface rust)
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