AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

An earlier than average example, the grip carved of a single large section of horn with characteristic crested and hooked pommel. The silvered guard w

Marked at the forte and scabbard locket with Devanagari designations, and struck with the British broad arrow mark. In its original leather and brass

An elaborate example, with engraved brass mounts and well-carved walnut stock, the grip with silver wire inlay work and filigreed silver escutcheon pl

The staghorn grips with chiseled foliate borders, the tangband heavily inlaid in gold, the blade repurposed from a late 16th century Ottoman saber. Wr

The hardwood stock of characteristic form, with horn buttplate and ebony breach-block, with well-chiseled iron mounts enclosing floral sprays. The bar

A massive example with elegantly-wrought iron grip terminating in a finely-modeled parrot's head, inlaid overall in heavy gold with flowering vi...

The steel hilt with grip of octagonal section and angled pommel with broad guard, lavishly inlaid in gold with rumi motifs throughout. The long, recur

Sulu work. The hilt of elephant, with a contrasting band of horn delineating the grip and elegantly-carved Jungayyan pommel. With long, silver ferrule

Probably Zand Dynasty, of characteristic droplet form, very finely and elegantly pierced in brass containing the Shi'ite motto, ALLAH, ALI, MUHA...

A type closely associated with the Siege of Vienna in 1683, the head finely-wrought of actively-grained pattern-welded damascus steel of characteristi