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LOT 2073
Tourist Cutlass in Decorated Copper Covered Scabbard
20TH CENTURY A.D.
24 7/8 in. (439 grams, 63.2 cm).
Mild-steel blade with incised foliage to each face; hilt with applied bone scales to the grip; copper shell to the wooden scabbard with impressed rosettes and other motifs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.
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