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A RARE PAIR OF BURMESE DHA POLEARMS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
A RARE PAIR OF BURMESE DHA POLEARMS
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
Each with handforgeddha blade of characteristic form, lightly-curved and expanding toward the acutely-pointed tip, one struck at the forte with a rectangular maker?s mark and fitted with a circular iron guard, surmounting a well-forged, socketed hook of quadrangular section. Each hardwood haft with an elaborate vinework-engraved brass socket and ringed buttcap with a bud finial.Mid-19th century.Worn overall.Overall length 151.5 cm.
Condition III