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Antique Persian shamshir sword with Laddered Assad Allah Wootz blade

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antique persian shamshir sword

A Persian shamshir sword. The blade of this sword is big and heavy and likely to date to the 17th or early 18th century.

Signed at the top with a lion cartouche. A panel of arabic with the maker Assad Allah inlaid with gold. The wootz steel blade of this sword is very fine and clear and display the rare pattern ‘Kirk Narduban’ the ladder of the prophet or ‘Mohammed’s ladder’. This displays as a regular banded pattern along the blade. 

The crossguard is of steel with some silver overlaid decoration, horn and silver grips with silver panels and a silvered steel pommel. Circa 1700persian shamshir sword

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