A rare and large sword (kattara) with scabbard, Oman, second half 19th century

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the leather hilt decorated with braided gold wire, the silver-sided pommel pierced with a hole at the centre; the long, straight, double-edged blade with three grooves to the central section; the wooden scabbard covered with embossed sheepskin decorated with geometric pattern, the central seam composed of braided gold wire, the gold chape and two bail bracelets chased with floral and foliate patterns, the bracelets bearing an Arabic inscription and dated 'AH 1291' (1874 AD), with silver clasp

109cm. length with scabbard

inscriptions

On the scabbard fittings:

sayf (?) beni sinan / akhadhnahu fi rabi' al-[a]wwal sana 1291

‘Sword of Beni Sinan that we seized in Rabi' al-[A]wwal, year 1291(April-May 1874)’

The inscription suggests that this sword may have been captured from the Beni Sinan tribe in Sudan during the conquest of Darfur by Turco-Egyptian armies in 1874.

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