Important Yatagan sword. Handle with walrus ivory plates (repaired cracks) with four rivets. Iron frame decorated with scrolls. Heel decorated in gold. Damascus Yatagan blade with gutters, decorated in gold with inscriptions in Arabic. Wooden scabbard entirely covered in silver with embossed decoration of foliage flowers, stylised friezes. Butterfly with the head of a fantastic animal. Length : 83 cmA. B.E. End of the 18th century, beginning of the 19th century .