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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TWO JAVANESE KRIS SWORDS141 - TWO JAVANESE KRIS SWORDS
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With wooden grips and scabbards, both with straight, double-edged pamor blades, one heavily worn. 19th century. Wear and damage. Overall length of th
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A SUMATRAN SIKKIN SWORD142 - A SUMATRAN SIKKIN SWORD
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With exotic hardwood grip and engraved brass ferrule. The blade with profiled bolster, straight and single-edged, with fuller and radiused tip. Mid-19
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (210.00) = 210.00
 
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A TIBETAN FLINT STRIKER143 - A TIBETAN FLINT STRIKER
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Of hide, the embellished brass mounts set with a red paste at the center. Early 20th century. Overall length 13.5 cm. Condition II
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (55.00) = 55.00
 
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A NORTH INDIAN BATTLEAXE144 - A NORTH INDIAN BATTLEAXE
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The pennant-form steel head, haft and spherical pommel all inlaid with bands of geometrical silver inlay and a pair of fighting elephants. Late 19th c
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Estimate : 125.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (140.00) = 140.00
 
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A SPANISH ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SWORD145 - 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 (100.00) = 100.00
 
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AN INDIAN BHIL BATTLEAXE146 - AN INDIAN BHIL BATTLEAXE
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Of typical form, the well-forged waisted crescent steel head with faceted bit, the socket with a pronounced flange. On its hardwood haft with brass mo
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Estimate : 200.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (225.00) = 225.00
 
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AN INDIAN BUCKLER SHIELD147 - AN INDIAN BUCKLER SHIELD
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Wrought of brass, elaborately embossed and engraved overall with Hindu gods and vegetal motifs. Latter 19th century. Light wear. Overall length 26 cm.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (130.00) = 130.00
 
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A BEJA DAGGER AND TUAREG DAGGER148 - A BEJA DAGGER AND TUAREG DAGGER
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The first with carved hardwood grip and double-edged blade with pronounced curve at the tip, in its leather scabbard. The second with straight, double
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Estimate : 80.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (75.00) = 75.00
 
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A Persian Shield149 - A Persian Shield
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All steel, of domed circular form with four central grip-bosses. Etched overall with vine and tendril motifs and scenes from Persian legends. 19th-20t
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (125.00) = 125.00
 
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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD150 - AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD
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Greek work, with horn grips and brass bolster, the blade straight and tapering toward the tip. In its wooden scabbard with iron mounts. First half of
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (190.00) = 190.00
 
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A CHINESE YAO DAO SWORD151 - A CHINESE YAO DAO SWORD
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Qing Dynasty, with recurved iron guard and wooden grip with crosshatching. The single-edged blade of thick section, tapering continuously to the uptur
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (275.00) = 275.00
 
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TWO MOROCCAN POWDERHORNS AND AN AFGHAN POWDERFLASK152 - TWO MOROCCAN POWDERHORNS AND AN AFGHAN POWDERFLASK
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The horns mounted in engraved brass with woven cords intact. The wooden flask covered in hide with an iron spout. Latter 19th century. Worn. Overall l
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (125.00) = 125.00
 
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A MORO GUNONG DAGGER153 - A MORO GUNONG DAGGER
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With banati wood grip and bronze ferrule and guard. The broad, double-edged blade with hardened edges. In its wooden scabbard with silver or silvered
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A PAIR OF SOUTH AMERICAN BOOT STIRRUPS154 - A PAIR OF SOUTH AMERICAN BOOT STIRRUPS
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Brass, cast in one piece and embellished overall, maker marked. 19th century or later. Overall length 28 cm. Condition I
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A PHILIPPINES TALIBON SWORD155 - A PHILIPPINES TALIBON SWORD
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With heavy single-edged blade. In its wooden scabbard. WWII era. Scabbard worn. Overall length 56.5 cm. Condition III
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Estimate : 40.00 - 50.00
Sold to floor for (30.00) = 30.00
 
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AN INDIAN SHIELD156 - AN INDIAN SHIELD
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Of molded, translucent hide, with rolled rim and raised central disk motif. Set with four lotus-shaped brass bosses. Mid-19th century. Grips lacking.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A CENTRAL ASIAN POWDER FLASK157 - A CENTRAL ASIAN POWDER FLASK
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Wrought of copper with traces of tinning, the obverse pierced and engraved overall in flowering vinework. Late 19th century. Overall length 20.7 cm.
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Estimate : 75.00 - 100.00
Sold to floor for (65.00) = 65.00
 
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AN AFGHAN SHAMSHIR SABER158 - AN AFGHAN SHAMSHIR SABER
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With engraved steel pommel cap and faceted guard, and horn grips. The robust, curved and single-edged blade with central fuller and engraved cartouche
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (400.00) = 400.00
 
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A NORTHERN INDIAN KHANJAR DAGGER159 - A NORTHERN INDIAN KHANJAR DAGGER
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The grip with panels of mother of pearl and brass mounts, with curved single-edged blade. In its finely filigreed brass scabbard set with numerous col
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (125.00) = 125.00
 
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A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD160 - A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD
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With carved, crested banati wood grip with cord wrap and silver ferrule and broad, handforged, layered blade. In its carved wooden scabbard with ratt
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Estimate : 175.00 - 275.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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