AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR 2014

Of characteristic form with walnut stock, the heavy silver mounts embossed and engraved in scrolls and vegetal motifs, the flintlock mechanism and bar

A massive example, rarely encountered. The Old Indian-type hilt composed of iron and brass with broad guard and flared pommel, and long, pierced reinf

With good overall patina, and characteristic lunule-form pommel with stepped grip, the straight double-edged retains some original sharpness. 800-1200

The hardwood stock of typical form, elaborately embellished throughout with bone, turquoise and ruby glass gems, and silvered wire. The octagonal barr

The grip wrought entirely of actively-grained Persian wootzsteel with hemispherical pommel, of octagonal cross-section tapering continuously to the bo

The wrought-silver grip of tapering cylindrical section, decorated overall with niello in elegant vegetal sprays on a smooth field, characteristic of

The walrus grips with large ears, the broad, single-edged recurved blade struck with a maker?s name, WORK OF ABDALLAH. The wooden scabbard covered wi

The elegantly-profiled horn grips with nielloed silver mounts, the massive blade appears to be forged of wootz, or bulat, with offset fuller to either

The hardwood stock with flared butt, finely embellished throughout with bone, turquoise and coral glass gems, and silvered wire. The heirloom barrel i

The mount of copper with remains of gilding, embossed and engraved in geometrical and floral motifs and enameled in pale blue. The curved, double-edge

The grip wrought entirely of steel, the pommel a fully-modeled lion?s head. The lightly-curved, single-edged blade wrought of actively-grained wootz.

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

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

Each with handforgeddha blade of characteristic form, lightly-curved and expanding toward the acutely-pointed tip, one struck at the forte with a rect

Likely Circassian work, the elephant grip with nielloed silver bosses. The straight, broad, handwrought blade double-edged, showing evidence of parrtn

Of Afedali type, with broadly-flared butt on hardwood stock.Mounted with a silver-inlaid snaphaunce lock, featuring a sliding pan cover. The barrel co

The grip wrought entirely of actively-grained Persian wootz steel with hooked pommel and remains of gold-inlaid borders, the bolster well-inlaid in go

The hardwood stock with silver furniture very finely embellished with areas of filigree,deeply embossed and chased motifs, Lock finely chiseled in ba

The finely-carved horn grip characteristic of Trabzon work, with superbly engraved, nielloed and gilded ferrule.The heavy, bifullered blade with stron

With solid silver grips and profiled steel bolster, the single-edged blade forged of finely patterned Kara Taban Persian wootzdamascus steel. In its l