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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A SPANISH COLONIAL DAGGER21 - A SPANISH COLONIAL DAGGER
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Of plug bayonet form with reeded bone grip and pierced and inlaid blade .First half of the 19th century .Overall length 28.1 cm. Condition II
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A PERSIAN BARUTDAN POWDERHORN22 - A PERSIAN BARUTDAN POWDERHORN
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Formed of rawhide with tooled floral and geometrical motifs overall, with hinged, sprung steel cap. Mid-19th century. Overall length 29 cm. Condition
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Estimate : 125.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (75.00) = 75.00
 
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A JAPANESE HACHIWARA ARMOR-PIERCING DAGGER23 - A JAPANESE HACHIWARA ARMOR-PIERCING DAGGER
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Reputedly used for piercing helmets, the robust, quadrangular blade with hooked forte. The blade retained in the wooden grip by a pin. Mid-late 19th c
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (200.00) = 200.00
 
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A YAKOMA SICKLE SWORD AND A UGANDAN TRIBAL DRUM24 - A YAKOMA SICKLE SWORD AND A UGANDAN TRIBAL DRUM
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The handforged steel blade of characteristic form with central ridge, slotted at the tip. The bone grip carved with crosshatching. Late 19th century.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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A SUDANESE HELMET25 - A SUDANESE HELMET
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The hemispherical bowl forged of a single piece of steel, with robust nasal and brass finial. The camail of riveted rings.Mid-19th century .Worn overa
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (600.00) = 600.00
 
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A PAIR OF U.S. CAVALRY SPURS26 - A PAIR OF U.S. CAVALRY SPURS
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Of steel, retaining brass buckles and leather straps, each marked R.I.A. for Rock Island Arsenal, and N.A. and dated 1914 and 1915, respectively. Date
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (25.00) = 25.00
 
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AN AFGHAN PULOWAR SWORD27 - AN AFGHAN PULOWAR SWORD
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The steel hilt of characteristic form, with profiled pommel and quillon finials.The handforged blade curved and single-edged.Late 18th-early 19th cent
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (175.00) = 175.00
 
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A PERSIAN BROADSWORD28 - A PERSIAN BROADSWORD
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Reflecting the neoclassicism prevalent during the reign of Nasr al-Din Shah, the symmetrical steel hilt with trilobate pommel and scrolled quillons. T
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Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
Sold to floor for (1,250.00) = 1,250.00
 
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A SUDANESE TRIPLE DAGGER29 - A SUDANESE TRIPLE DAGGER
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Mounted and decorated en suite, with one straight and two curved blades, each with stepped bone grips, the blades with elaborate etched Arabic inscrip
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
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A BUGIS KRIS30 - A BUGIS KRIS
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With characteristic JawaDemam-type grip and scabbard carved of actively-grained hardwood, with engraved brass mendak. The waved blade forged of pamor.
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (100.00) = 100.00
 
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A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER31 - A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER
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The grips of variegated hardstone with elephant bands and brass mounts.The curved, T-backed blade with chamfered edge.In its fabric-covered wooden sca
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
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A BRITISH MODEL 1821 INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD32 - A BRITISH MODEL 1821 INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD
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The hilt of typical form retaining substantial original gilding, the guard embellished with crowned VR monogram and folding counterguard, the grip cov
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Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
Sold to floor for (150.00) = 150.00
 
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A SUMATRAN KALASAN SWORD33 - A SUMATRAN KALASAN SWORD
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Of characteristic form, with lacquered hardwood grip and rolled pommel with studs and ferrule wrought of suassa, an alloy of gold and copper endemic t
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
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A BURMESE DHA DAGGER34 - A BURMESE DHA DAGGER
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The grip a single section of elephant with filigreed silver mounts, the blade single-edged. Late 19th century. Light wear. Overall length 32.1 cm. Con
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
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AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD35 - AN OTTOMAN YATAGHAN SWORD
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The tangband and bolsters of embossed and chased silver. Recurved, single-edged blade of hollowground section with gold-inlaid geometrical motif to th
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Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
Sold to floor for (350.00) = 350.00
 
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FIVE FENCING FOILS36 - FIVE FENCING FOILS
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Comprising a pairs and three single foils. Variously struck, SOLINGEN, and with maker's marks. Latter 19th century. As found. Length of the long...
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Estimate : 100.00 - 150.00
Sold to floor for (225.00) = 225.00
 
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AN INDIAN SCISSOR KATAR DAGGER37 - AN INDIAN SCISSOR KATAR DAGGER
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Of characteristic form, the hilt and forte of the blade inlaid with silver. When the grips are compressed, the blade springs apart into two halves to
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Estimate : 150.00 - 200.00
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AN OTTOMAN PERCUSSION PISTOL38 - AN OTTOMAN PERCUSSION PISTOL
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A massive example made in the French style, with walnut stock inlaid with brass in elaborate foliate motifs, the lock engraved overall. The cannon bar
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (350.00) = 350.00
 
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TWO INDIAN BATTLEAXES39 - TWO INDIAN BATTLEAXES
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The first Bhil work, with well-forged steel head and hardwood haft. The second wrought entirely of steel from Udaipur, with crescent blade and substan
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Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
Sold to floor for (450.00) = 450.00
 
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A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD40 - A MORO BARONG SHORTSWORD
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With finely crested and carved pommel and silver ferrule, and massive, pattern-welded blade. In its carved and pierced wooden scabbard. Latter 19th ce
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Estimate : 175.00 - 225.00
Sold to floor for (250.00) = 250.00
 
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