‡A CAUCASIAN SHORTSWORD (KINDJAL), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade etched with scrollwork in a series of three long fullers on each face (areas of light pitting), characteristic hilt encased in silver decorated with beadwork, filigree and niello, in its scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, the outer face with a symmetrical arrangement of scrolling flowers and foliage within niello frames and the inner with scrolls of niello foliage, and a loop for suspension 35.0 cm; 13 ¾ in blade