A RARE SABRE FROM THE ARMOURY OF TIPU SULTAN, RULER OF MYSORE, with single-edged fullered blade double-edged at the point and stamped 'Wooley & Deakin' on the spine, one-piece bronze hilt cast and chased with tiger's head on the pommel and langets and with small tiger-head finial on each quillon and on the knuckle-guard, each head (apart from the last) engraved with bubris , and with swelling grip of octagonal section, late 18th Century 35¼in. blade
A RARE SABRE FROM THE ARMOURY OF TIPU SULTAN, RULER OF MYSORE, with single-edged fullered blade double-edged at the point and stamped 'Wooley & Deakin' on the spine, one-piece bronze hilt cast and chased with tiger's head on the pommel and langets and with small tiger-head finial on each quillon and on the knuckle-guard, each head (apart from the last) engraved with bubris , and with swelling grip of octagonal section, late 18th Century 35¼in. blade
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