‡ AN ARAB SWORD (KATTARI), OMAN, 19TH CENTURY... Lot 36
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‡ AN ARAB SWORD (KATTARI), OMAN, 19TH CENTURY with straight double-edged blade formed with a full-length fuller (tip shortened), leather-covered hilt with silvered iron cap-pommel, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large silver mounts comprising locket and chape each chased with flowers, foliage and fruit against a finely punched ground, and a pair of suspension bands with rings 81.0 cm; 31 7/8 blade For a closely related example illustrated with a Zanzibar trader born in 1837 see Hales 2013, p. 243.
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