FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR SALE

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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 Khan of Crimea. Register now through ICOLLECTOR to bid online. THERE ARE MORE AND LARGER IMAGES OF EACH LOT SHOWN IN OUR ONLINE CATALOG AT OUR WEBSITE Questions? Call 323 851 2345
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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AN ARAB KHANJAR DAGGER221 - AN ARAB KHANJAR DAGGER
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Of Hijazi type mounted entirely in filigreed silver, the horn grip with pommel of characteristic form and raised silver bosses. The blade broad, light
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (400.00) = 400.00
 
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A RARE NORTH INDIAN BHUJ GLAIVE222 - A RARE NORTH INDIAN BHUJ GLAIVE
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An elaborately embellished example of characteristic form which likely originated in Bhuj, a city in the Kutch district of Gujerat.The robust, double-
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Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,400.00
Sold to floor for (1,250.00) = 1,250.00
 
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A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMET223 - A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMET
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The ribbed bowl with ring finial, the visor and four-lamed neck guard with rolled edges. The nasal with flared upper terminal, retained by a large, he
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Estimate : 800.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (1,100.00) = 1,100.00
 
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A GEORGIAN HUNTING DAGGER224 - A GEORGIAN HUNTING DAGGER
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The hilt of European form, with flattened-cylindrical pommel and small, recurved, double guard in brass, engraved with tigers and prey. With bone grip
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (700.00) = 700.00
 
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A NORTHERN THAILAND DHA SWORD225 - A NORTHERN THAILAND DHA SWORD
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A very large example, the mounts wrought of pewter, with ribbed, bud-form pommel and two-handed grip and brass guard with scalloped border. The handwr
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (275.00) = 275.00
 
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A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERD226 - A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERD
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Of classic form, the massive head with ogival terminal and convex cutting edge, chiseled with cuvilineal maker's marks and bearing the stamp of ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for (700.00) = 700.00
 
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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER227 - A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER
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A large example with finely-profiled horn grip, and fine, silver-inlaid iron mounts. The long, broad, double-edged blade with symmetrical fullers to e
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (550.00) = 550.00
 
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A FINE PARANG SUMBAWA SWORD228 - A FINE PARANG SUMBAWA SWORD
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The grip elaborately carved as a naga-head, with superbly embossed and engraved ferrule. The straight, single-edged blade with expanded tip dramatical
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Estimate : 600.00 - 700.00
Sold to floor for (600.00) = 600.00
 
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A BEJA DAGGER229 - A BEJA DAGGER
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A quality example, the distinctive ebony grip with complex geometrical carving, the robust double-edged blade with central ridge. In its tooled hide s
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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A RARE CENTRAL ASIAN BROADSWORD230 - A RARE CENTRAL ASIAN BROADSWORD
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A quite similar example depicted in the ninth-century fresco of a mounted Samanid ruler at Nishapur allows attribution of the form. The distinctive gu
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Estimate : 1,500.00 - 1,700.00
Sold to floor for (4,250.00) = 4,250.00
 
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A EUROPEAN PARTIZAN231 - A EUROPEAN PARTIZAN
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The massive head with faceted socket retaining a single langet, expanding into a pair of cusped hooks, with pronounced central ridge throughout, and d
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (550.00) = 550.00
 
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A MORO PANABAS AXE232 - A MORO PANABAS AXE
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The long, heavy, handforged blade with distinctive curve and expanded tip showing its layered construction, the carved wooden grip with brass mounts a
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (300.00) = 300.00
 
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A SERBIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL233 - A SERBIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL
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Of large dimensions, with intricately carved hardwood stock and filigreed silver escutcheon plate inletted at the wrist, and brass mounts. The fine an
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Estimate : 500.00 - 600.00
Sold to floor for (600.00) = 600.00
 
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A FINE OTTOMAN KAMA DAGGER234 - A FINE OTTOMAN KAMA DAGGER
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A rare example, the waisted grip wrought entirely of silver, the pommel and ferrule with applied filigreed panels and gilding. The fine blade straight
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (750.00) = 750.00
 
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A NORTH INDIAN FIRANGI BACKSWORD235 - A NORTH INDIAN FIRANGI BACKSWORD
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With Indian baskethiltofcharacteristic form, finely inlaid overall with intricate flowering vine motifs in silver and gold. The massive blade straight
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Estimate : 500.00 - 600.00
Sold to floor for (750.00) = 750.00
 
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A MUGHAL KARD DAGGER236 - A MUGHAL KARD DAGGER
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The grip carved of a single section of elephant, the fine, robust blade wrought of black wootzdamascus steel with goldwork on the bolsters, and chisel
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Estimate : 700.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (1,000.00) = 1,000.00
 
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A VIETNAMESE DHA SWORD237 - A VIETNAMESE DHA SWORD
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Montagnard work, with brass guard and pommel and heavy, handforged blade. In its rattan-wrapped wooden scabbard.Late 19th-early 20th century.Overall l
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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A CAUCASIAN SHASHKA SWORD238 - A CAUCASIAN SHASHKA SWORD
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The steel hilt of characteristic form, with silver floral inlay overall, with lightly-curved single-edged blade with broad central fuller. Mid-19th ce
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Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
Sold to floor for (325.00) = 325.00
 
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AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCK239 - AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCK
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A spectacular example of chiseled and pierced steel in Mannerist style, with profiled and engraved mainspring, the cock and pan with finely wrought pa
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Estimate : 900.00 - 1,000.00
Sold to floor for (800.00) = 800.00
 
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A PERSIAN KHANJAR DAGGER240 - A PERSIAN KHANJAR DAGGER
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A rare example of symmetrical form, the finely carved, waisted walrus grip of a type popular with the Kurds. The straight, double-edged blade forged o
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Estimate : 800.00 - 900.00
Sold to floor for (1,000.00) = 1,000.00
 
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