Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

127 129127A BALKAN SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER, 19TH CENTURYwith single-edged blade incised with simple foliage on eachside, silver grip cast and chased with foliage in low reliefenriched with small nielloe panels (pommel stone missing),in an associated silver sheath decorated en suite; ANINDIAN DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY, with single-edgedblade, green soapstone hilt, in an earlier Turkish silversheath chased with an entwined pattern of ribbon, flowersand foliage on a finely punched ground, and stamped witha Tughra twice at the mouth; AN INDIAN DAGGER, 19THCENTURY, with single-edged blade, highly figured brownhardstone hilt, in an associated wooden sheath encased insilver repousée with scrollwork and flowersthe first: 25cm; 9N in(3)£800-1000128A BALKAN YATAGHAN, 19TH CENTURYwith slightly curved single-edged blade decorated in goldkoftgari on one side with four linear panels filled withspurious inscriptions and with a further linear panel filledwith flowers on the other, the lower portion of the bladeenclosed by a shaped silver panel extending to form thehilt, silver hilt repousée with trophies-of-arms and scrolls,and eared pommel, in an associated leather-coveredwooden scabbard (worn); and AN INDIAN KATAR, 19THCENTURY, with tapering blade formed with a reinforcedpoint and cut with a pair of converging triangular panels oneach side, steel hilt of characteristic form, and decoratedthroughout with gold koftgari cartouches filled with flowersand foliagethe first: 53.5cm; 21in blade(2)£500-600129AN INDO-PERSIAN JAMBIYA, 19TH CENTURYwith slightly curved fullered blade retaining much wateredpattern over its surface and chiselled with a pair of exoticbeasts within a gold frame on each side of the forte, steelhilt chiselled with flowers and foliage picked out with goldkoftgari, in its original wooden scabbard encased in steeldecorated en suite with the hilt42.5cm; 16N in£1000-120053