Quite a price for a Kattara - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

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Quite a price for a Kattara

8th October 2010, 03:41 PM

Michael Blalock

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I'm thinking this sword is 19th century as I think are the swords in the following photos. I know there is a lot of ambiguity about when this type of Omani sword appeared but Sotheby's attribution of 16th century is extremely early though it certainly seems to have paid off.

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