AN INDIAN EXECUTIONER'S SWORD (TEGHA), 19TH CENTURY

AN INDIAN EXECUTIONER'S SWORD (TEGHA), 19TH CENTURY with characteristic very broad blade formed with a reinforced back-edge, decorated with silver koftgari flowers and foliage at the forte (rubbed), iron hilt with traces of silver koftgari decoration, including a pair of quillons, knuckle-guard with vestigial monsterhead terminal, and disc-shaped pommel with pronounced tapering button 73.8 cm; 29 in blade