A TIPU SULTAN SWORD

Lot 102
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 102 | A TIPU SULTAN SWORD
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
A TIPU SULTAN SWORD

THE HILT SERINGAPATAM, MYSORE, INDIA, CIRCA 1790; THE BLADE ENGLAND, 1788

The one-piece cast bronze hilt with pommel, quillons, langets and knuckle-bow terminal chiselled with tiger's heads, the grip with engraved bubri details, the associated single-edged bi-fullered blade becoming double-edged at the tip, the flat engraved on both sides with the crowned Royal cipher of King George III

41 ½in. (105.1cm.) long

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