A SILVER-INLAID STEEL TULWAR SWORD WITH GOLD TRISULA MARK
Northern India or Punjab Hills, 19th century

With a typical curved single-edged steel blade, with a shallow medial groove running from below the forte to just above the tip, with a flattened spine 2/3 of the overall length, the forte inlaid in gold on one side with a trident (trisula) and the Indian numeral '34', the steel hilt designed with the typical T-shaped forte with bulbous terminals, covered in a silver-inlaid decorative grid containing quatrefoil, with a flattened grip convex to the sides, at the top a flat decorative disc with a hemispherical pommel with bulbous finial all covered in scrolling clover trellis, with a black leather-lined wooden scabbard, 83.5cm long.