AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

With wooden grip and brass crossguard. The long, straight, double-edged blade of above-average quality, etched with Arabic calligraphy, including ALLA

A massive example, with horn grip and steel blade, the scabbard a single, large horn.Early 20th century.Worn.Overall length 69.1 cm. Condition II

Ngala People, with carved wooden grip and fine iron blade.Early 20th century.Worn.Overall length 67.5 cm.

Ngala People, with carved wooden grip and engraved iron blade.Early 20th century.Worn.Overall length 71.2 cm.

Ngombe People, with complex bladeform and fur-covered pommel.Latter 19th century.Worn.Overall length 65 cm. Condition III

From the film TARAS BULBA (1962,) cast in aluminum with remains of black paint. Mid-20th century. Light wear. Overall length 89.6 cm. Condition II

With ribbed grips and broad steel blade.In its leather-covered wooden scabbard. First half of the 19th century.Overall length 62 cm. Condition II

With horn grips and heavy blade.In its wooden scabbard.Mid-19th century. Worn, leather deteriorated. Overall length 80.5 cm. Condition IV

With horn grips and heavy blade.Mid-19th century.Overall length 75.3 cm. Condition II

Horn grips, wood bolsters, with broad handforged blade. Latter 19th century.Worn overall, bolster loose.Overall length 69.3 cm. Condition III

Benares work, engraved brass with red and blue enamel.Latter 19th century.Minor dents. Diameter 20.9 cm. Condition III

The curved case of brass with baroque motifs and hooked terminal, the broad blade with clipped tip etched with a flower on one side and a fish on the

With dagger and chopsticks, in its rayskin scabbard.Mid-19th century. Blade pitted. Overall length 37.9 cm. Condition III

Formed of a polished gourd, with nielloed silver cap, the plug intact.Mid-19th century.Overall height 9.9 cm. Condition I

Fancy carved horn handle with handforged watered blade and silver mounts. In its matching scabbard.Mid 19th century. Wear and repairs to silver. Overa

With carved and crested exotic hardwood grip and broad, handforged blade, the wooden scabbard with well-carved okir motifs. Late 19th - early 20th cen

With bone and horn grips and heavy blade.In its wooden scabbard with iron chape.Mid-19th century. Worn, leather deteriorated. Overall length 71.5 cm.

With well-carved grip and heavy single-edged blade. In its wooden scabbard carved with an American Eagle to the obverse and TRADE BY CAMILO ECLE ON AP

Ngombe People, with complex bladeform and fur-covered pommel.Latter 19th century.Worn.Overall length 63 cm. Condition II

Probably made at Sarajevo, the bone grips terminating in a rolled pommel and inlaid with brass. Broad, single-edged blade struck with a scimitar maker