A JEWELLED SILVER-GILT DAGGER
OTTOMAN EGYPT AND FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
A JEWELLED SILVER-GILT DAGGER OTTOMAN EGYPT AND FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER With fine 18th century Persian watered steel tapering blade, the forte with a trilobe issuing a slightly raised ridge, the Egyptian silver sheath and hilt with incised fish-scale decoration, the sheath inscribed with ma sha' Allah and tawakkaltu 'ala Allah around the locket and signed Khaylil b... below, the dagger decorated with green, blue, pink and red stone insets on one side added in the first half 19th century, one of them partly concealing the signature, the gilding possibly contemporary with the insets, blade with minor corrosion, gilding slightly rubbed, in elegant gilt and stamped leather fitted case 19½in. (49.5cm.) long
A JEWELLED SILVER-GILT DAGGER
OTTOMAN EGYPT AND FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER
A JEWELLED SILVER-GILT DAGGER OTTOMAN EGYPT AND FRANCE, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER With fine 18th century Persian watered steel tapering blade, the forte with a trilobe issuing a slightly raised ridge, the Egyptian silver sheath and hilt with incised fish-scale decoration, the sheath inscribed with ma sha' Allah and tawakkaltu 'ala Allah around the locket and signed Khaylil b... below, the dagger decorated with green, blue, pink and red stone insets on one side added in the first half 19th century, one of them partly concealing the signature, the gilding possibly contemporary with the insets, blade with minor corrosion, gilding slightly rubbed, in elegant gilt and stamped leather fitted case 19½in. (49.5cm.) long
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