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A BARONG SHORTSWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:175.00 - 225.00 USD
A BARONG SHORTSWORD
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...
Likely Tausug work, the grip carved of banati wood, with large kakatua pommel and silver ferrule. The broad, handforged blade showing edge-hardening. In its rattan-bound wooden scabbard, carved with okir motifs at the throat at tip. Second half of the 19th century. Losses to scabbard. Overall length 51.2 cm.
Condition III