AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

With elephant grips and steel tangband with profiled silver toggle. The recurved blade forged of dark wootz, with chamfered cutting edge. In its later

A rare type, the grips of translucent ramshorn with steel pommel.The guard with rolled quillon terminals in the form of dragon?s heads. The fine blade

Superb Lakh work produced in Tbilisi, the horn grips framed in engraved and nielloed silver, the bosses en suite, the reverse set with the Islamic coi

Wrought entirely of silver, finely engraved and nielloed overall. The grip formed as a saber hilt with the characteristic pommel a fully-modeled leopa

Mounted for a British general officer, the hilt comprising a pair of mameluke-type elephant grips with rolled pommel retained by silver bosses formed

Superb Kubachi work, the horn grips mounted in engraved and nielloed silver, the bosses en suite. The handwrought, straight, double-edged blade with o

Of Taouzilt type, the hardwood stock of characteristic form, with applied brass buttcap, and set with a large profiled, engraved and nielloed plates,

The stock sheathed in finely pierced and engraved brass throughout, and fitted with a miquelet lock. With curled trigger.Mid-18th century. Wear to the

The elephant grips with highly-arched terminals characteristic of Eastern Anatolian work, the elaborately-filigreed and gilded silver tangband set wit

With horn grips and steel tangband. The straight, continuously tapering blade forged fine, dark actively-patterned wootz, with deep central fuller and