Auctions Imperial Arms and Armor 2015

A weapon endemic to India, designed for both parrying and thrusting. With a matched pair of antelope horns fitted with brass tips mounted to the steel

The dark horn grips with profiled pommel mounted in engraved and nielloed silver. The heavy blade broad, wrought with multiple fullers and panels, wit

The hardwood stock with characteristically broad triangular butt, with profiled brass mounts throughout, the mechanism intact and functional, with pie

In Circassian style, with walrus and horn grips and intricately engraved and nielloed silver mounts. The long blade with raised central ridge and tape

Likely Maguindanao work, the elaborately-worked junggayan hilt typically carried by a datu or noble, with elephant kakatua-form pommel and gilded moun

Produced in the well known Epirot weapons-making center of Ioannina, the wooden stock with brass mounts, the grip with characteristic shallow curvatur

Characteristic of Zlatoust work, the grip covered in green-stained shagreen and mounted in silver with applied pierced and profiled plaques. The str

The hilt with steel pommel cap and dark horn grips with silver wire wrap, the guard with worn gold inlaid decoration. The blade moderately curved, and

Circassian work, the hilt and scabbard mounts of silver, finely engraved and nielloed on a polished ground, the design emulating the friable silver ga

Reflecting the neoclassicism of the reign of Nasr al-Din Shah, with symmetrical silver-inlaid hilt and scrolled quillons. The long, straight, double-e