Description
Indian Gilt-Silver Mounted Ivory Hilted Steel Dagger (Pesh-Kabz)
18th-19th Century
The ridged single-edge watered-steel blade with groved spine and stamped with initials N :*C :, the partial gilt curving spiked guard terminating in a snarling dragon's-head inlaid with cabecheon rubys and a tapered lobed and fluted ivory handle segmented with gilt...