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A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH
A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with broad double-edged, probably European, blade formed with a short slender fuller on each face, iron gauntlet hilt extending with a pair of shaped langets over the forte, bulbous over the hand and decorated with a framework of lines, embossed with an ellipse at the wrist, pronounced beadwork border decorated with a chiselled panel of foliage ahead, the interior with a plain grip bar and arm bar with recurved bud-shaped terminals, and the outer surface retaining much early silver plated finish, 80.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C57.
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A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH
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