Punch Dagger

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Lahore (made)

Dagger with steel blade, decorated with v-shaped indents at hilt end. Arm guards and hand-grip damascened with inscriptions in gold. A narrow, deeply grooved quadrangular blade (armour piercing) with a steel hilt and sideguards covered with inscriptions in gold kuftkari.

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Categories	Arms & Armour SCRAN India Museum
Object type	Punch dagger
Materials and techniques	Steel, damascened with gold Steel
Brief description	Dagger, with a narrow deeply grooved blade with an armour piercing tip, Sikh, Lahore, 19th century.
Physical description	Dagger with steel blade, decorated with v-shaped indents at hilt end. Arm guards and hand-grip damascened with inscriptions in gold. A narrow, deeply grooved quadrangular blade (armour piercing) with a steel hilt and sideguards covered with inscriptions in gold kuftkari.
Credit line	Transferred from the India Museum in 1879
Production	Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879. A Sikh weapon.
Bibliographic references	Egerton, Wilbraham, An illustrated handbook of Indian arms; being a classified and descriptive catalogue of the arms exhibited at the India museum: with an introductory sketch of the military history of India, London, 1880 p.131 Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, p. 131
Other numbers	633 - Egerton catalogue Number 12,574 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	3450(IS)

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Record created	May 17, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O39675/punch-dagger-unknown/

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