Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction Archive 3 - Delayed Success: Establishing

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Turkey, Ottoman Empire. A Naval Officer’s Dress Sword, by Alexander Coppel Auction Archive 3 - Delayed Success: EstablishingAn unusual Ottoman Navy Officers dress sword, measuring 91 cm in total length. It features a 78 cm long, nickel plated, magnetic steel blade with a gentle curvature and with a narrow fuller running the majority of the length of the top edge of each side of the blade. Both the tip and lower edge retain their factory original sharpening. The blade bears double sided acid etched imagery consisting of central Ottoman crescents surrounding five pointed