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A FINE AND RARE NORTH INDIAN PESH QABZ DAGGER

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The olive and rust-colored hardstone grips with fine silver pommel in the form of a falcon, with well-engraved features and a festoon of silver chains with jingles. The recurved blade of characteristic form with T-shaped spine elaborately profiled and engraved with an armory designation, and raised central ridge at the armor-piercing tip. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard with elaborately silver mounts, the locket with silver binding chains engraved in geometrical and floral patterns, with a lion hunting its prey and a Hindu goddess worked on the chape. Mid-19th century. Light wear to blade. Overall length 36.5 cm. Condition I

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