AN INDIAN TALWAR SWORD WITH HORSE HEAD HILT India, circa 1900 With a long curved single-edged watered damascus steel blade, with a thick back edge and four central grooves on each side, the gilt copper hilt engraved with lush rosettes and vegetal sprays and embellished with a horse head terminal and a curved knuckle guard, the wooden scabbard covered with red velvet and gilt copper openwork with floral motifs, 93cm long including the scabbard.