Very beautiful dagger with a straight symmetrical blade with - Lot 206

Lot 206
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150 - 200 EUR
Very beautiful dagger with a straight symmetrical blade with - Lot 206
Very beautiful dagger with a straight symmetrical blade with a groove bearing engraved on one side a crawling lion and on the other a waving snake. The blade is dressed at its base with a thick leaf engraved with geometrical motifs, very complex handle, campaniform silver pommel decorated in a third of a stack of thin alternating copper, silver and brass washers, dark wood pommel with flared sides at its base and decorated like the pommel (alternating stacking), large prominent conical cabochon on a rectangular base, the last third of the fuse on the blade side has a flared rectangular shape decorated on the front side with geometrical motifs following the decoration of the base of the blade, four round protruding pitons flank the last third of the fuse, the back of the fuse on the last third has writings in the form of alternating dots and lines. Very complex scabbard mainly made of silver enhanced with copper and dressed with several layers of polychrome leather (dark brown and green), the decoration chiselled on the silver following the decoration of the fuse, we find the same finely engraved geometrical patterns on the front face, the back only bears alternating dots and lines, double silver rings forming a hanger, very nice quality of manufacture, the lion on the blade reminding us of a product from Ethiopia, state (1-)
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