AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

Kubachi work, the elephant grip with gold-inlaid iron bosses.The handwrought, lightly curved and double-edged blade with central fuller. The velvet-co

A rare piece of Indian armor composed of small, unriveted iron and brass rings worked in a repeating lozenge pattern throughout. With deep V-shaped fl

Of characteristic form, carved from a single large section of wood with raised central ridge. The obverse surface painted overall with organic pigment

Of brass, shield-shaped, with the obverse and cap cast in relief with a Greek revolutionary in characteristic headdress and fustanella captured by thr

The grip carved of a single section of green jade, with flared, trilobate guard, tapered grip and rolled pommel, carved overall with flowering lotuses

A rarely-encountered form from Rumelia (modern Bulgaria) with hardwood stock, the flattened butt of elongated triangular section, profusely carved ove

Of characteristic form, the steel grip and scabbard mounts elaborately inlaid with silver in geometrical motifs. The heavy, curved, double-edged blade

A matched PAIR of enormous processional weapons carried before a sultan or datu, in the form of panabas axes. The blades handforged, with chamfered cu

Wrought entirely of bronze with deep patina, the faceted socket tapering continuously toward the droplet-form head, which is pierced with ALLAH and re

With horn grips bound at the base with braided silver wire, steel pommel and guard of characteristic form. The substantial blade of shallow curvature,