with broad double-edged possibly European blade struck with a mark on one face, probably a falchion (rubbed) and a brief inscription on the other, silver-plated iron gauntlet chiselled with a frame of beadwork, extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets, moulded over the hand, flaring over the fore-arm and with strongly moulded borders over the wrist and at the base, the interior with a single grip bar, arm bar with recurved bud-shaped finials, and an early blue quilted padded lining, the outside retaining much silver-plated finish enriched with a framework of gilt (small losses and areas of lifting), in its dark red velvet covered wooden scabbard with gilt iron chape, 89.7 cm blade

Provenance

The armoury of the Nizams of Hyderabad

The Nawab Mir Nawaz Jung Bahadur, senior minister in the government of the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nizam’s envoy to London in the 1940s

Thence by descent.