[CharlesS]

This is one of the most unique Indian patissas I have seen. The blade is single edged and just slightly curved, being more noticable on the spine than the edge. The huge hilt is decorated in silver koftgari and the forte is decorated with a variety of Indian gods and goddesses in silver as well. The blade is good Indian crystaline damascus wootz with a lap weld where two practically identical wootz ingots were welded together; this likely was originally polished to be virtually invisible. The thin fuller is decorated with gold floral koftgari. There is an even thinner fuller above it, also decorated in gold koftgari, almost all of which is long gone. The scabbard is new.