AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

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Auctions Imperial offers the very finest arms, armor, and historical artifacts in March of each year, and is pleased to assist in making your experience a positive one. To begin, search our catalogue, either in print or online at www.auctionsimperial.com, and then either examine the lots you are interested in during the pre-sale exhibition and/or communicate with our specialists if you have questions.
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
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A RARE TAIWANESE SHORTSWORD149 - A RARE TAIWANESE SHORTSWORD
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With wooden grip and single-edged blade.In its scabbard with applied bands. Early 20th century. Light wear. Overall length 63.4 cm. Condition II
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A PHILIPPINES SWORD151 - A PHILIPPINES SWORD
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Visayan, the horn grip terminating in a characteristic monsterhead with numerous inlays and heavy single-edged blade.In its wooden scabbard.Mid-20th c
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AN ETHIOPIAN SHOTEL SWORD171 - AN ETHIOPIAN SHOTEL SWORD
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Wooden grip with chip to pommel, finely forged recurved blade with central ridge and fullers. In its hide scabbard with belt intact.Mid-19th century.W
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AN AFGHAN PULOWAR SWORD192 - AN AFGHAN PULOWAR SWORD
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The steel hilt of characteristic form, with profiled pommel and quillon finials.The handforged blade curved and single-edged.Late 18th-early 19th cent
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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD208 - AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD
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With horn grips and recurved, inlaid blade, brass mounts. Early 19th century.Overall length 75.2 cm. Worn. Condition III
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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD209 - AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD
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Balkan work, the horn grips with large ears and single-edged recurved blade with fuller at the spine. 19th century. Bolsters lacking, blade lightly pi
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AN AFGHAN PISTOL211 - AN AFGHAN PISTOL
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Wood stock with flared butt inlaid with mother of pearl, percussion lock, mounts and barrel elaborately inlaid in brass in foliate motifs with inscrip
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A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK PISTOL217 - A CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK PISTOL
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With carved hardwood stock and brass furniture.Latter 18th century. Cock lacking. Worn.Overall length 48.1 cm. Condition IV
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A MONTAGNARD FLINTLOCK MUSKET227 - A MONTAGNARD FLINTLOCK MUSKET
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With hardwood stock and native mechanism. Chinese trade barrel. Late 19th century.Worn.Overall length 69.4 cm. Condition III
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A BREAST & BACKPLATE ARMOR228 - A BREAST & BACKPLATE ARMOR
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Steel, with fluted panel to breast and brass rivets.Mid-late 20th century. Light wear. Height 48.9 cm. Condition II
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A RARE AFGHAN SHIELD233 - A RARE AFGHAN SHIELD
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Of hammered copper, engraved overall in concentric foliate and floral bands, with rolled rim. Mid-19th century .Overall diameter 37.5 cm. Condition II
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A SUDANESE HELMET234 - A SUDANESE HELMET
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The hemispherical bowl forged of a single piece of steel, with robust nasal and brass finial. The camail of riveted rings.Mid-19th century .Worn overa
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A CHINESE HARDSTONE BELT BUCKLE241 - A CHINESE HARDSTONE BELT BUCKLE
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Archaistic style, carved of seven articulated pieces terminating in a horse?s head. Qing Dynasty or later.Overall length 22.5 cm. Condition II
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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER242 - A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER
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Handle of silver with niello and filigree, curved double-edged blade with multifullers. 84 silvermark to reverse of handle.Latter 19th century.Minor w
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Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 175.00 - 200.00
 
 
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A PERSIAN BIDENT SPEAR256 - A PERSIAN BIDENT SPEAR
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With bifurcate blades, each with flamboyant edges and a central ridge, elaborately etched overall with Arabic inscriptions and animals at the forte. S
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A NEPALESE KORA SWORD260 - A NEPALESE KORA SWORD
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With disk pommel and guard, blade flares strongly at the tip. Mid-late 17th century. Worn, pitted. Overall length 69 cm. Condition IV
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A SET OF THREE OTTOMAN BLACK POWDER ACCESSORIES283 - A SET OF THREE OTTOMAN BLACK POWDER ACCESSORIES
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All of brass, including two priming flasks and a grease box with fitted cap, each incised overall in geometrical designs. Early 19th century.Worn.Heig
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A FRENCH M 1882 HEAVY CAVALRY SABER286 - A FRENCH M 1882 HEAVY CAVALRY SABER
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With brass three-branch guard and pommel, the straight, bifullered blade with markings to spine (now illegible) and struck on the forte and guard with
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A PERSIAN BATTLEAXE299 - A PERSIAN BATTLEAXE
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With blades of double-headed crescent form etched with calligraphy and figures from Persian mythology. On its steel haft with spike finial. Beginning
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A MUGHAL TULWAR SWORD302 - A MUGHAL TULWAR SWORD
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With characteristic steel hilt and broad, pattern-welded blade.Traces of goldwork to pommel.Mid-18th century.Overall length 84 cm. Condition II
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