A high-ranking officer's sabre,Afghanistan,dated 1897 Slightly curved,single-edged blade with fullers on both sides and a pandour upper half etched on both sides with vine decoration enclosing heraldic cartouches and the date 1315(=1897).Elaborately chiselled brass cross-piece retaining some of the grip scales,and a gilt guard chain attached to the brass scabbard with remnants of engraved,embossed,and chiselled decorative leaf and blossom designs,with a heraldic cartouche on the reverse ,Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available

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