A FINE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MARATHA, with broad straight double-edged European blade with traces of a running wolf mark and further marks within a short slender fuller on each face, heavy pierced and chiselled russet iron gauntlet hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets with foliate terminals, a pair of low domed moulded panels over the hand filled with scrolling flowers and foliage within a delicate pierced frame, flaring over the fore-arm with a finely roped elliptical moulding beneath a lotus flower at the top and the lower portion filled with panels of pierced scrolling foliage, lotus flowers and beadwork frames, strongly moulded roped border, the interior with a single grip-bar (restored) and moulded arm bar with recurved bud-shaped finials, and the outer surface with some original silver finish, 94.8 cm blade¦¦Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C118. ¦¦Highlight from the Roy Elvis Collection (1944-2022)¦
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