Description
AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), DATED 1854
AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), DATED 1854 with curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a hollowed back-edge, gilt russet iron hilt decorated over its surface with expanded flowerheads within a framework of foliage, including a pair of langets, bulbous quillons, disc pommel with a series of calligraphic cartouches on the underside, pierced button, and integral grip (areas of rust), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with small silver chape, 71.3 cm blade The inscriptions read, in the first cartouche, 'sayyid hashim ‘ali sakht-i peshawar' (Sayyid Hashim ‘Ali. Manufacture of Peshawar), in the second cartouche, Qur’an 61:13 (in part), and, in the third cartouche 5 (?) muharram sana 1271 (5(?) Muharram, year 1271 (1854))
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