Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

108 109108A TURKISH YATAGHAN, 18TH CENTURYwith straight single-edged blade cut with a slender fullersurrounded by incised wrigglework and scrolls on eachside, eared hilt of characteristic form, encased in brassplaques engraved with scrolling foliage and fitted with hornfillets on each side (one plaque lifting), in its originalleather-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mountscast and chased with foliage en suite with the hilt43cm; 17in blade£700-900109A TURKISH YATAGHAN, 18TH CENTURYwith 17th Century curved single-edged blade cut with aninscription within a stylised shamshir on one side and witha brief inscription within a square on the other, retaining acentral watered panel on each side (now indistinct), thebase of the blade enclosed in white metal extending toform the back-strap, and fitted with a pair of horn gripscalesstudded with numerous small silver nails andretained by three pairs of rivets with floral washers (thegrips and washers with small chips), in its original woodenscabbard covered with tooled leather and with silver chapeformed as a marine monster and silver locket with a smallloop for suspension61cm; 24in bladeThe inscription reads, in translation, ‘ the work of ‘Uthman’and also incorporates the owner’s name.£700-100048