AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

Dating to the Greek War of Independence, the wooden stock with profiled iron mounts and brass bands, the miquelet lock of native manufacture.Barrel oc

With elegant Indian baskethilt, the broad, single-edged blade terminating in an obtusely-angled tip with pronounced back edge, mounted with a set of p

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

Bronze hilt with knucklebow, terminating in a dragon head and recurved, handforged blade.Mid-18th century or later. Blade pitted. Overall length 27.8

Horn grips with heavy, double-edged steel blade and wooden scabbard with brass mounts. Mid-19th century. Light wear. Overall length 59.5 cm. Condition

With bifurcate blades, each with flamboyant edges and a central ridge, elaborately etched overall with Arabic inscriptions and animals at the forte. S

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

Steel, with sliding nasal, plume tube and spike finial. 19th century. Overall height 28 cm. Condition III

Horn grips with heavy, double-edged steel blade and wooden scabbard with brass mounts. Mid-19th century. Light wear. Overall length 58.3 cm. Condition

With disk pommel and guard, blade flares strongly at the tip. Mid-late 17th century. Worn, pitted. Overall length 69 cm. Condition IV

Mounts silvered overall with panels of fine filigree and niello. Trifullered, double-edged blade. Mid-20th century. Some wear. Overall length 48.4 cm.

With waisted, symmetrical steel grip inlaid in silver vine motifs and broad, curved double-edged blade with central ridge, forged of granular wootzdam

A form endemic to the Bhil people of Central India, the steel head forged with multiple points, the socket engraved and wrought with a pronounced flan

Reflecting the neoclassicism prevalent during the reign of Nasr al-Din Shah, the symmetrical steel hilt with trilobate pommel and scrolled quillons. T

Mounted in brass, with well-forged fullered blade.In its matching scabbard. Mid-19th century. Tip shortened, light wear. Overall length 91.5 cm. Condi

Wooden stock with bone inlay, brass furniture and flintlock mechanism. Steel barrel.Mid-19th century.Overall length 49.6 cm. Some wear. Condition III

With rhino grips and brass guard, the blade lightly curved and multifullered. Mid-19th century.Blade brown.Overall length 93.9 cm. Condition III

A massive example with brass mounts, the blade with broad, raised backedge and decorations to forte. In its later scabbard.Late 18th ?early 19th centu

With hardwood grip and straight, double-edged blade.In its leather scabbard with forearm strap intact.Latter 19th century. Some wear. Overall length 2

With characteristic curved hardwood stock, profusely inlaid with bone and ebony in geometrical motifs.With large flintlock mechanism, the barrel retai

Visayan work, the horn grip with elaborately carved monsterhead pommel and profiled iron guard. The massive, chisel-edged blade with long back edge.In

The pommel and grip wrought entirely of silvered filigree with a central band of white crocodile hide and black wool pompon intact, iron guard. The ma

An above-average example, the stock very well formed and finished, the bow broad and strong. Retains its bamboo quiver and darts with original fletchi

A very rare example, the characteristic profiled horn grips with scrolled pommel and inlaid brass wire.The blade likely Spanish with broad central ful

Carved horn grip, the broad, polished blade with characteristic choil. In its leather-covered wooden scabbard with elaborately gilt and filigreed moun

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.

A massive example, with horn grips and iron bosses, the long blade wrought with single offset fullers, and inscribed on each side, THERE IS NO HERO LI

With wood grip, mounted entirely in finely engraved silver. The blade marked at the forte, HASSAN AL MAFAN (?) 55. Latter 19th century. Worn.Overall l

Igorot People, the heavy, barbed head handforged, with metal ferrule and rattan wrap to base. Late 19th century. Overall length 155.5 cm Condition II

The bone pommel well-aged, fitted with a straight, double-edged 17th century Spanish or German blade, triple fullered at the forte and incised with a

Probably Cambodian, the handforged blade struck with maker?s marks and mounted to a hooked hardwood haft as is typical. First half of the 19th century

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

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

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

The grip composed of alternating sections of green-stained horn and brass with a large, pierced toggle. The profiled iron shaft conceals a pair of lon

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

A form endemic to the Bhil people of Central India, the steel head forged with a convex bit, the socket wrought with a pronounced flange. On its hardw

The pommel and grip wrought entirely of silver filigree and black wool pompon intact, iron guard. The broadsword blade long and double-edged with deep

With conical brass pommel and ferrule and reeded bone grip. The straight, double-edged blade with high central ridge tapers continuously to the tip. E

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

The heavily curved blade with pronounced central ridge native-forged, the horn hilt of characteristic form.In its hide scabbard. 19th century. Overall

A rare example of extreme length made for use with a musket. The handforged iron grip with spherical pommel and engraved grip, the iron shaft with app

The unusual hilt of Junggayan form, cast in bronze with filigree embellishments and silvered (?) The polished, handforged blade of characteristic bell

The wooden mounts inlaid overall with pewter wire and highlighted with red sealing wax. With characteristic scrolled and hooked pommel and recurved gu

A large example of characteristic form, made of hide laced to a central wooden post with integral grip, the edges bound to stripped branches with tigh

Of a form seldom encountered, with handwrought steel double blade. Set in a hardwood handle carved with human heads and decorated with tufts of colore

An elaborately embellished example of characteristic form which likely originated in Bhuj, a city in the Kutch district of Gujerat. The robust, double

Rarely encountered in carbine length, the butt covered in tooled leather and set with glass gems, the lock of local manufacture, the barrel with octag

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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