28th Jun, 2023 12:00

Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 136
 

136

A SUMATRAN DAGGER (SIWAH), ACEH, 19TH CENTURY

with slender slightly curved blade formed with a double-edged point, silver gilt hilt of characteristic form, decorated with a band of four overlapping engraved coronets tapering from the base and rising to a round pommel with a filigree flowerhead with eleven corals in raised settings, in its wooden scabbard encased in silver, the upper pprtion decorated with a filigree panel en suite with the hilt and the lower portion (perhaps associated) engraved with panels filled with hatched designs, 19.3 cm blade

Sold for £480


 

with slender slightly curved blade formed with a double-edged point, silver gilt hilt of characteristic form, decorated with a band of four overlapping engraved coronets tapering from the base and rising to a round pommel with a filigree flowerhead with eleven corals in raised settings, in its wooden scabbard encased in silver, the upper pprtion decorated with a filigree panel en suite with the hilt and the lower portion (perhaps associated) engraved with panels filled with hatched designs, 19.3 cm blade