A collection of Qajar steel tools
Persia, 18th-19th Centurycomprising a powder measure; a set of ember tongs and pricker in the form of a dragon; a sugar axe in the from of a dragon and three axe heads, one in the form of a bird; a miniature gold damascened axe; a brass inlaid lock element; a Qajar padlock in the form of a key; a miniature hook knife; a circular boss; a hinged multi tool; an awl; a file; a lancet; a pair of tweezers and seven other implements
the larger axe 35 cm. long(23)注脚Provenance
Mark and Peter Dineley Collections, UK.

The Qajar padlock, dating to the 18th or 19th Century is almost identical to an example in the Tanavoli Collection (see James Allan & Brian Gilmour, Persian Steel, The Tanavoli Collection, Oxford, 2000, p. 414, no. 29.