FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR SALE

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Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the Khan of Crimea. Register now through ICOLLECTOR to bid online. THERE ARE MORE AND LARGER IMAGES OF EACH LOT SHOWN IN OUR ONLINE CATALOG AT OUR WEBSITE Questions? Call 323 851 2345
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
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AN INDIAN PATA GAUNTLET SWORD101 - AN INDIAN PATA GAUNTLET SWORD
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The steel gauntlet with applied scalloped border, engraved with the monkey god Hanuman and two warriors mounted on elephants. The broad, doubled edged
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (400.00) = 400.00
 
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A FINE BURMESE DHA DAGGER102 - A FINE BURMESE DHA DAGGER
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A superior example, featuring a one-piece elephant grip with rounded pommel, the mounts wrought entirely in finely-embossed and engraved silver involv
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (275.00) = 275.00
 
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A FINE BUKHARA KAMARBAND HONOR BELT103 - A FINE BUKHARA KAMARBAND HONOR BELT
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Rarely encountered, comprising a massive two-piece buckle and six large mounts, all of solid silver; each pierced, profiled, engraved, nielloed and gi
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (900.00) = 900.00
 
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A RARE DAYAK SHIELD104 - A RARE DAYAK SHIELD
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Of characteristic form, carved from a single large section of wood with raised central ridge, and strengthened at either end with three bands of ratta
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for (1,900.00) = 1,900.00
 
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A MUGHAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED KHANJAR DAGGER105 - A MUGHAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED KHANJAR DAGGER
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The grip finely carved, with rolled pommel and lotus motifs in relief. The recurved, single-edged blade forged of actively-patterned wootzdamascus ste
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Estimate : 800.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to floor for (1,750.00) = 1,750.00
 
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A RARE MORO SPEAR106 - A RARE MORO SPEAR
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The handwrought head of characteristic form with forged-in central panel showing traces of pattern-welding. Retained to the well-patinated bamboo haft
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (300.00) = 300.00
 
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AN AFGHAN LOHAR PICK107 - AN AFGHAN LOHAR PICK
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The head forged of steel with profiling and punchwork, with folding brass haft likewise punched and profiled, terminating in a handle with bone grips
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Estimate : 275.00 - 375.00
Sold to floor for (300.00) = 300.00
 
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A U.S. M1860 LINE OFFICER'S SWORD108 - A U.S. M1860 LINE OFFICER'S SWORD
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The gilt brass hilt with stand of arms and American crest on folding counterguard with black sharkskin grip. The straight, double-edged blade elaborat
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to trb52 for (200.00 + 38.00BP) = 238.00
 
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A MORO DATU'S KRIS SWORD109 - A MORO DATU'S KRIS SWORD
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Maguindanao work, the elaborate junggayan hilt typically carried by a datu or noble, with kakatua-form pommel and silvered mounts with okir engraving.
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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AN OTTOMAN KARABELA SABER110 - AN OTTOMAN KARABELA SABER
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A rare type of classic form, probably Ottoman Court Workshop. The dark horn grips inlaid with engraved and profiled geometrical silver plaques, the gu
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 3,500.00
Sold to floor for (3,500.00) = 3,500.00
 
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A NORTH INDIAN KHANJAR DAGGER111 - A NORTH INDIAN KHANJAR DAGGER
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With waisted, symmetrical steel grip inlaid in silver vine motifs and broad, curved double-edged blade with central ridge, forged of granular wootzdam
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Estimate : 200.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (150.00) = 150.00
 
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A PAIR OF CHINESE QING DYNASTY STIRRUPS112 - A PAIR OF CHINESE QING DYNASTY STIRRUPS
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Of bronze, well-patinated, chiseled with dragon's heads; each with delicately engraved detail.Early 19th century or earlier.Height 14.5 cm. Cond...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (165.00) = 165.00
 
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A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY KARD DAGGER113 - A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY KARD DAGGER
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With solid silver grips and profiled steel bolster, the single-edged blade forged of finely patterned Kara Taban Persian wootzdamascus steel. In its l
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Estimate : 500.00 - 600.00
Sold to floor for (400.00) = 400.00
 
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A RARE INDIAN BATTLEAXE114 - A RARE INDIAN BATTLEAXE
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A form endemic to the Bhil people of Central India, the steel head forged with multiple points, the socket engraved and wrought with a pronounced flan
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (400.00) = 400.00
 
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A CHINESE QING DYNASTY PAIRED JIAN SWORD115 - A CHINESE QING DYNASTY PAIRED JIAN SWORD
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Comprising a pair of straight, double-edged blades forged with a central ridge on the obverse and flat on the reverse, the hilts symmetrical, with bra
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Estimate : 350.00 - 450.00
Sold to floor for (475.00) = 475.00
 
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A DANISH MODEL 1839 CAVALRY SABER116 - A DANISH MODEL 1839 CAVALRY SABER
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A massive weapon with well-forged branched guard and leather-covered grip with double twisted brass wire wrap; the broad, flat quillon marked in diffe
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Estimate : 350.00 - 450.00
Sold to floor for (200.00) = 200.00
 
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AN OTTOMAN BLUNDERBUSS117 - AN OTTOMAN BLUNDERBUSS
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A fine example of the type, the walnut stock with elaborate carving and silver wire inlay at the butt. With French-style flintlock mechanism and massi
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to floor for (1,250.00) = 1,250.00
 
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AN OTTOMAN KALKAN SHIELD118 - AN OTTOMAN KALKAN SHIELD
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A rare example, wrought in steel and superbly chiseled at the center in flowering vines issuing from vases, together with five circular cartouches, th
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
Sold to floor for (1,750.00) = 1,750.00
 
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A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY BAZUBAND ARMGUARD119 - A PERSIAN QAJAR DYNASTY BAZUBAND ARMGUARD
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Raised from a single plate and pierced overall in Qur'anic inscriptions in cartouches, backed with red velvet. Traces of later etched borders.La...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (300.00) = 300.00
 
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A CONTINENTAL ALLA ROMANA- TYPE PARADE HELMET120 - A CONTINENTAL ALLA ROMANA- TYPE PARADE HELMET
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A fine example of the armorer's art, a burgonet wrought entirely of heavily-silvered copper in Neoclassical style, with characteristic visor, co...
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Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,200.00
Sold to floor for (1,200.00) = 1,200.00
 
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