the first with gently tapering shaft with flattened base and hidden rounded blade, the waisted hilt with bi-furcated pommel with lotus bud terminals, the shaft decorated with a gold arabesque of split-palmettes reserved on a steel ground, the hilt with lotus palmettes and floral scrolls, the other with straight shaft, faceted upper section and rounded base, a hidden faceted and chiselled blade secured to the shaft with a screw opening, the hilt of serpentine form with lion-head terminal, decorated with arabesque cartouches reserved on a gold ground intercepted with bands of silver palmettes