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SIX HAFTED WEAPONS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
SIX HAFTED WEAPONS
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...
Comprising a handwrought military fork head, likely European. An Eastern European military scythe with maker's mark of a crown, the edge reworked with serrations. An ankus with handwrought steel head, on its wooden haft with applied European coins and medals. A European military scythe with arched blade springing from the spine, struck with a maker's mark of CTM; on its wooden haft. A European military scythe with hooked base, the haft in two pieces. And a Zulu assegai javelin, with barbed head and wirework socket on the haft. Comprehensively 17th-19th century.All ex-Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA.Overall length of the longest 216 cm. Condition III