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A CAUCASIAN SHASHKA SWORD

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Made for a Caucasian serving in the Ottoman cavalry, the silver hilt finely engraved and nielloed overall. The long, broad, lightly-curved and multifullered heirloom blade engraved HUNGARIA at the right forte. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard mounted in nielloed silver en suite with the hilt, the Ottoman crest prominently depicted on the locket. Latter 19th century.Overall length 100.3 cm. Condition I

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