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Super rare, very fine antique islamic mughal dagger - knife.
Magnificent, richly decorated museum quality dagger - meticulous attention to smallest details.
India, lucknow, circa 18th century.
Grip and scabbard mounts are decorated with multy color enamel - typical lucknow style. 
Gold decorated back strap and bolsters on grip.
Red fabric over wood scabbard (fabric is old replacement, probably was done about 100 years ago).
Superb quality damascus watered steel wootz (bulat) blade. 
Very fine wootz pattern throughout entire blade.
  Size:
12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm) long in scabbard.  
11 in. (27.9 cm) long out of scabbard.
Blade is about 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm) long.
  Condition:
Very good original antique uncleaned condition, shows honest normal age wear.
Blade is in excellent antique uncleaned condition.
Expected minor losses to enamel. 
Some normal wear to gold on back strap and bolsters on grip. 
All 100% original, no repairs (except old replaced fabric on scabbard).
Finest quality very rare collectors grade example.