A RARE BALKAN SHORTSWORD, ALMOST CERTAINLY MONTENEGRIN
19 T H CENTURY
A RARE BALKAN SHORTSWORD, ALMOST CERTAINLY MONTENEGRIN 19 T H CENTURY With very slender tapering straight blade cut with a pair of very narrow full-length fullers and with gold koftgari basal panels incorporating a brief inscription on one side (rubbed), brass hilt of two-piece construction cast with a close-set pattern of nodular flowers, in its original scabbard with long slender brass mounts en suite with the hilt 16in (41.6cm) blade
A RARE BALKAN SHORTSWORD, ALMOST CERTAINLY MONTENEGRIN
19 T H CENTURY
A RARE BALKAN SHORTSWORD, ALMOST CERTAINLY MONTENEGRIN 19 T H CENTURY With very slender tapering straight blade cut with a pair of very narrow full-length fullers and with gold koftgari basal panels incorporating a brief inscription on one side (rubbed), brass hilt of two-piece construction cast with a close-set pattern of nodular flowers, in its original scabbard with long slender brass mounts en suite with the hilt 16in (41.6cm) blade
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