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Lot 596
  • 596

A bronze-gilt Tipuesque Tiger-Hilted Sword, India, early 19th Century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • steel and metalwork
the slender curved, tapering and fullered steel blade engraved with figures and floral motifs in European style, the gilt-bronze knuckle-guard and hilt decorated with sculpted lion heads

Provenance

Collection of Robin Wigington, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1979

Condition

overall in good condition. some rubbing to the blade and hilt, as viewed.
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