A TURKISH KILIJ with a fine robust watered single-edged blade clipped at the point and inlaid on the front side with three gold cartouches enclosing religious invocations, with a gold-inlaid amulet ( beduh ) above, and the gold-inlaid inscription 'The Property of Mir Muhammad Nasir Khan Talpur' along the back-edge, the Mameluke hilt with ivory grips and chased gilt-copper mounts in European style, in leather-covered scabbard with gold-damascened iron mounts, the hilt mid-19th Century, the blade 17th/18th Century 34in. blade
A TURKISH KILIJ with a fine robust watered single-edged blade clipped at the point and inlaid on the front side with three gold cartouches enclosing religious invocations, with a gold-inlaid amulet ( beduh ) above, and the gold-inlaid inscription 'The Property of Mir Muhammad Nasir Khan Talpur' along the back-edge, the Mameluke hilt with ivory grips and chased gilt-copper mounts in European style, in leather-covered scabbard with gold-damascened iron mounts, the hilt mid-19th Century, the blade 17th/18th Century 34in. blade
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