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A hardstone-hilted steel dagger (pesh-kabz) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

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A hardstone-hilted steel dagger (pesh-kabz) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

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A hardstone-hilted steel dagger (pesh-kabz)
North India, 18th/ 19th Century
the single-edged watered-steel blade of slightly curving form with flattened spine, decorated in silver overlay to both sides with inscription-filled cartouches, the forte with cartouches containing floral interlace, the spine with further inscription-filled cartouche and palmette motifs, the faceted moss agate hilt of pistol-grip form with silver hilt mount, the wood scabbard clad in red velvet with silver mounts
34.9 cm. long
Footnotes:
Provenance
Bonhams, Eastern Arms & Armour from the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 141.

Exhibited
Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA, September-December 1994

Literature
Oliver S. Pinchot, Arms of the Paladins, The Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection of Fine Eastern Weapons, Rhode Island, 2014, p. 50, fig. 3-108.

Inscriptions: to one side of the blade, 'God, Muhammad, 'Ali'; to the other side, 'Shah Sri Sadafi, His Holiness Junayd'; to the spine, 'Aba (sic) Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthman, Haydar (i.e. 'Ali).'

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A hardstone-hilted steel dagger (pesh-kabz) North India, 18th/ 19th Century

Name: A hardstone-hilted steel dagger (pesh-kabz) North India, 18th/ 19th Century
SKU: 177308649
Price: 3000 GBP
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