A RARE INDIAN KHANJAR DAGGER

Showing substantial Ottoman influence, the fine steel grip elaborately inlaid in silver with unusual bifurcate pommel and base, the massive, curved and double-edged blade with pronounced armor-piercing tip wrought of active and unusual black wootz. In its velvet covered wooden scabbard. 18th century. Inlay rubbed, scabbard covering refreshed. Overall length 35.5cm. Condition III