AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

With bronze hilt terminating in a dragon head and recurved, handforged blade.Mid-18th century or later. Blade pitted. Overall length 27.1 cm. Conditio

Wootz blade with chiseled palmette and transverse grips.Latter 17th century.Worn.Overall length 31.4 cm. Condition III

Iron hilt with piercing and fluting, broad blade with pronounced back edge. Early 19th century.Worn.Overall length 86.5 cm. Condition III

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bone grip with rolled pommel, elaborately inlaid with brass studs and rosettes, the broad, well-forged blade struck with a maker?s mark in the for

Based on the Imperial Russian M 1881 Officer?s saber. Pommel and forte of blade struck with Persian numerals. In its steel scabbard.Early 20th century

Of a form seldom encountered, the curved steel blade set in a wooden handle decorated with tufts of hair. In its carved wooden scabbard.Latter 19th ce

Of molded rawhide with separately-applied grip, the obverse with characteristic geometrical tooled motifs overall.Retains its pendent strap.Mid 19th c

The staghorn grip of unusual form, pommel elaborately carved with aso and tuba motifs, the grip wrapped with rattan. The hardwood scabbard with carved

The short, straight, double-edged blade with evidence of sharpening, the brass mounts well profiled and fitted with a beltclip, possibly Native Americ

The pierced half-basket hilt and mushroom pommel of nickeled brass with wooden grip, the fullered blade with blunted edge and rebated tip. Mid-19th ce

The green-stained horn grip with hooked pommel, profiled and inlaid with brass studs and rosettes, with broad, with rare pattern-welded, single-edged

Massive examples, wrought entirely of steel with deeply-profiled tread plate and inlaid overall with silver. Retaining their original leather straps w

An unusually large example, the grip elaborately inlaid with brass studs, rosettes and corals, the broad, well-forged blade struck with a maker?s mark

With beaked brass pommel and ferrule engraved and lacquered red, the grips of green hardstone. The broad, T-backed blade with chamfered cutting edge .

Of characteristic form, the hilt and reinforces wrought entirely of embossed and engraved silver with flowering vines and stands of arms. The long, st

The green-stained horn grip with peaked pommel, elaborately profiled and inlaid with brass studs and rosettes, with broad, single-edged blade. In its

The grip of figured hardwood, the finely-forged blade well-fullered and minutely pierced at the forte.In its scabbard with figured hardwood chape and

Wrought in brass, of characteristic form, likely Uzbek. Engraved overall and overlaid with profiled silver plaques. Mid- 19th century.Overall length 1

With waisted, symmetrical steel grip inlaid in silver vine motifs and broad, curved double-edged blade with central ridge. Mid-19th century. Some wear

The finely-carved horn grip characteristic of Trabzon work, with brass ferrule.The heavy, fullered blade with strong, raised back edge and crescent mo

The forged iron hilt of characteristic form, with downturned quillons terminating in monster heads. The lightly curved, single-edged blade with pronou

With steel hilt and well-forged and fullered blade with prominent back edge, struck with three disks and inlaid with a brass disk at the forte. In its

Of conical, circular form, with rolled rim and central knob, the braided grip and suspension strap intact. Latter-19th century.Worn overall.Diameter 5

Of brass, with cast and chased motifs and hinged lids.First half of the 19th century. Light wear. Overall height 12 cm. Condition II

Wooden body with iron mounts and green velvet covering, captured pricker. Early 17th century or later.Worn.Overall height 17.9 cm. Condition III

The horn with good age patina and original cord, retaining its circular woven rattan ball- holder, the opening closed with wool also used for patching

Brass, cast in one piece and embellished overall. 19th century or later. Overall length 27 cm. Condition I

Bhil People, with characteristic concave edge and wooden haft.Mid-19th century.Worn.Overall length 62.7 cm. Condition III

A rare example, with long, tapered socket terminating in a profiled bead, from which develops a pair of hooks separated by a short fuller, and a massi

Bhil People, handforged blade on wooden haft. Mid-19th century.Worn.Overall length 79 cm. Condition II

The crescent-form head lavishly inlaid with floral and geometrical panels in silver on each side, as is the flared and profiled peen. The haft with el

With wooden handle and curved blade.In its leather sheath. And a matching quiver with arrows. Early 20th century.Overall length 53 cm. Condition II

With embellished brass mounts and steel, single-edged blade.Mid-19th century. Light wear. Overall length 35.9 cm. Condition: II

The grips of variegated hardstone with elephant bands and brass mounts.The curved, T-backed blade with chamfered edge.In its fabric-covered wooden sca

With typical hardwood grip, carved and studded with silver. The curved, double-edged blade handforged.In its snakeskin scabbard.Late 19th century. Lig

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

Of characteristic form, the hilt and forte of the blade inlaid with silver. When the grips are compressed, the blade springs apart into two halves to