AUCTION 43: ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOR

A rare shashka with a light curved fullered blade decorated with Arabic inscriptions, original wooden scabbard covered in black stitched leather, feat

A large Caucasian dagger (qama) with a double-edged pointy blade with a single groove on both sides. There is an Arabic inscription along the central

A Caucasian dagger kindjal with a gold koftgari-decorated grooved blade. Horn grip scales, wooden scabbard covered in black leather. Steel fitting wit

A fine Caucasian silver-mounted dagger with a flattened-diamond section double-edged pointy blade marked at the ricasso by the maker in Arabic. The ha

The blade is of a characteristic form, double-edged, with a wide single-fuller on each side, decorated with brass or copper inlay. The handle is made

A large Transcaucasian dagger of a characteristic form with a 21 1/2-inch double-edged ponty blade. The blade is decorated with gold inlay and the dee

Of a traditional form Georgian quama dagger, double-edged blade decorated with gold inlay on one side, with deep fullers on either side. The hilt is c

With a straight double-edged pointy blade with one fuller on each side, with a carved hilt composed of two scales decorated in a suit with the scabbar

Gilt-brass pommel and cross guard, black bakelite handle, straight blade decorated with etching and engraving, gilt, and enamels, marked "TOLED...

A very fine Toledo cup hilt rapier with a gilt interior etched blase, superbly decorated steel cup and scabbard chape and throat with silver and gold

This late 19th century horse-whip is adorned with beautiful floral ornamentation on the handle and a similarly styled end cap at the tip of the red-st

A Circassian flintlock rifle, mid-nineteenth century. Long rifled barrel, the stock is carved of a tree root. Original ramrod. Caliber 12 mm. Good act

Silver-mounted and engraved flintlock pistol signed by G. Banchi with a beautiful old round barrel decorated with cased palmettes. The grip is mounted

A 19th-century Caucasian flintlock pistol with a round smoothbore barrel, the breech features three stamps with the gunsmith's mark. The lock is...

Georgian (Caucasian) blunderbuss saddle pistol, mid-19 c. with a fine barrel decorated with chased steel. The Miquelet lock is in working order. The w

Transcaucasian pistol (Georgian), overall length 16 inches. The stock is covered in black shagreen leather, the barrel is smooth, cal.15 mm., and it i

An identical pair of exquisite silver-mounted Ottoman flintlock pistols from the first few decades of the 19th century. The mechanisms all appear to b

A Middle-Eastern silver-mounted flintlock pistol. The trigger guard and grip mount are made of hammered silver. The barrel from breech to the muzzle i

The octagonal barrel of the gun is made of damascus steel and is partially decorated with a floral relief ornamentation. The wooden stock is decorated

A traditional Turkish gun, distinguished by a miquelet lock, a hexagonal butt, a "ball" trigger without a trigger guard, and a long barrel...