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A CURVED STEEL DAGGER (CHILANUM) NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY AND EARLIER A CURVED STEEL DAGGER (CHILANUM) NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY AND EARLIER With a curved watered-steel double-edged blade with medial ridge and reinforced point, the 'T'-shaped hilt with a rectangular grip with rounded knop finial, curved knuckle-guard issuing from a stylised elephant mouth and terminating in a horse's head, the rainguard with a ram's head finial, blade and hilt contemporaneous but associated 13½in. (34cm.) long |
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