Auctions Imperial Arms and Armor 2015

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Auctions Imperial is pleased to offer 695 lots of fine antique arms and armor from the world over for 2015, our biggest sale ever! Guaranteed to please the most discriminating collector! Find the suit of armor, sword, dagger, saber, broadsword, dirk, kula khud, shamshir, khanjar, flintlock musket & pistol, tanegashima, barong, kris and bolo you've been looking for!
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
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A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE121 - A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE
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Negrito work, with horn grip, brass guard and massive, well-forged blade. First half of the 20th century. Overall length 67.6 cm. Condition II
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (50.00) = 50.00
 
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THREE DHA DAGGERS122 - THREE DHA DAGGERS
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With wooden grips and scabbards and metal mounts, the blades well-wrought and fullered, each engraved. Mid 20th century. Overall length of the largest
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (70.00) = 70.00
 
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A PHILIPPINES TALIBON SWORD123 - A PHILIPPINES TALIBON SWORD
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With heavy single-edged blade. In its wooden scabbard. WWII era. Worn. Overall length 60.5 cm. Condition II
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Estimate : 30.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for (35.00) = 35.00
 
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A MOROCCAN POWDERFLASK124 - A MOROCCAN POWDERFLASK
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The wooden body of characteristic domed form with projecting suspension tabs, covered entirely in leather and heavily embellished with brass studs. Fi
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (110.00) = 110.00
 
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A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE125 - A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE
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Negrito work, with horn grip, brass guard and massive, well-forged blade. First half of the 20th century. Overall length 64.5 cm. Condition II
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (45.00) = 45.00
 
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A SOMALI BILLAO DAGGER126 - A SOMALI BILLAO DAGGER
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Of characteristic form with bone grip and brass mounts, the blade handforged and double-edged. Late 19th century. Worn. Condition III Overall length 2
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (60.00) = 60.00
 
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A PERSIAN SHAMSHIR SWORD127 - A PERSIAN SHAMSHIR SWORD
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With wooden grips, the guard with applied bass disk. Curved, handforged blade. In its replaced scabbard. Worn overall. Mid- 19th century. Overall leng
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (325.00) = 325.00
 
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A BURMESE SPEARHEAD128 - A BURMESE SPEARHEAD
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The massive, waisted blade with pronounced central ridge, marked at the either forte with a shining star maker’s mark. Fitted with a lacquered hardwoo
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (80.00) = 80.00
 
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A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE129 - A PHILIPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE
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Negrito work, with horn grip, brass guard and massive, well-forged, waved blade. First half of the 20th century. Overall length 57.7 cm. Condition I
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Estimate : 50.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (60.00) = 60.00
 
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A CHILD’S KRIS SWORD130 - A CHILD’S KRIS SWORD
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Perhaps Sumatran, with wooden grip of anthropomorphic form and brass mendak. The straight, double-edged blade etched with Arabic inscriptions. In its
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (80.00) = 80.00
 
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AN INDIAN TULWAR SWORD131 - AN INDIAN TULWAR SWORD
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With characteristic steel hilt and lightly curved, single-edged blade with central fuller. In its velvet-covered wooden scabbard. Late 19th century. W
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (150.00) = 150.00
 
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A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD132 - A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD
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With carved, crested banati wood grip and silver ferrule and broad, handforged, layered blade. In its carved wooden scabbard. Latter 19th-early 20th
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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A SPANISH ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SWORD133 - A SPANISH ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SWORD
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The brass hilt of characteristic form with a control mark struck on the guard. The lightly-curved, single-edged, spear-tipped blade marked at the fort
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (120.00) = 120.00
 
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A RARE NAGA DAO SWORD134 - A RARE NAGA DAO SWORD
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With typical flared pommel, the wooden grip wrapped with braided rattan. The stout, chisel-edged blade with characteristic flared tip. In its carved w
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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AN INDONESIAN  KNIFE135 - AN INDONESIAN KNIFE
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The wooden grip with rolled pommel, the handwrought blade with concave edge. In its profiled wooden scabbard. Mid-19th century. Worn. Overall length
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (75.00) = 75.00
 
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A SYRIAN KHANJAR DAGGER136 - A SYRIAN KHANJAR DAGGER
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The horn grip inlaid in geometrical motifs of brass and mother of pearl. With curved, fullered steel blade and steel scabbard with silver inlay. Late
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (150.00) = 150.00
 
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A SCOTTISH SKENE DHU KNIFE137 - A SCOTTISH SKENE DHU KNIFE
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With silver mounts, the pommel set with a faceted stone, the wooden grip with brass studs. Well-finished blade with filework on the spine and a short
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A PHILPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE138 - A PHILPPINES FIGHTING KNIFE
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Visayan work, the grip carved of horn, terminating in a well-detailed demon’s head. The broad blade with tapering tip and engraved motifs. In its carv
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (50.00) = 50.00
 
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A PERSIAN SHAMSHIR SWORD139 - A PERSIAN SHAMSHIR SWORD
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With wooden grips and curved, handforged blade. In its scabbard. Some wear, pommel lacking. Mid- 19th century. Overall length 86.6 cm. Condition III
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (300.00) = 300.00
 
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A BURMESE DHA SWORD140 - A BURMESE DHA SWORD
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The silver-mounted hilt with bands of filigree and fine mesh grip. Single-edged blade with slightly concave tip, forte struck with a maker’s mark in t
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (250.00) = 250.00
 
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