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Originally Posted by A.alnakkas
This is a very lovely piece. Imho, it could be similar to Rsword's type but with abit of added creativity? :-) it belonged to the same person so it seems.
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Hi Lofty,
Could well be another piece out of the Ali Dinar group. It could be something collected earlier than that as well (Dinar died in 1916).
My first thoughts when I saw it were the odd brass hilt kaskara like this one:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14711 Which seem to be presentation pieces.
However this item seems to have a very good blade and the brass looks better aged...
It is a bit odd to me the auction had no provenance attached, yet it reached such a price.
The oddest feature to me seems to be the spikes coming off the guard - has anyone seen anything similar?
EDIT: Thanks Chris for the higher resolution image! Very helpful. I had also requested more images from Christies but never received any. I particularly wanted to see the lion mark.