Fine Kutch horse head shamshir
The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.
Indian Jade mounted dagger
Nice and complete with opaque green hilt and scabbard mounts.
Indian enamel and wootz dagger
With designs of animals, often attributed to Lucknow, north India.
Heavy armor piercing katar
With a narrow blade of impressive thickness. Attributable to the Bundelkhand area.
Punjabi khanda for court of Ratlam
The hilt carries an inscription dating it to 1841.
Tarah-i-khāra (तरह इ खर)
Hindu name for a heavy type of heavy bodkin
Group of mounted Indian arrows
Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.
Flintlock lance
A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.
Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)
North Indian shield entirely made of wootz, including its bosses.
Rajput katar with rubies and diamonds
Of steel construction with gold overlay. Of a type produced in Rajasthan in the early 1800s.
Garsoee katar
An enigmatic type of katar produced in various places in India.
Ganga Jamni decorated kard
Ganga - Jamni refers to the rivers of the Ganges and Jamna. It was used to describe metalwork done in contrasting colors, usually gold and silver, in inlay or overlay work.
Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt
The hilt is in the typical Marwari Rajput style, made by Ram Namar in 1857 A.D.
A Fraser talwar, 18th century
Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.
Double bladed katar
Also called jamdhar doulicaneh. Forged from a single piece of steel, complete with scabbard.
Northern wootz katar
With different types of decor on either side of the hilt.
Indian Antelope Axe
An enigmatic type of axe, this one probably from tribal north India.
Sosun pattah with twistcore blade
The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period
Talwar with 1693 dated blade
With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.
Sikh fighting chakram
A sharp, heavier user. Not the flimsy type usually encountered.
Interesting kirach with dated hilt
Mentioning the son of a Maharajah and a year corresponding to 1887 A.D.
Fine 17th century pattissa
The enormous blade made of fine, boldly contrasting wootz steel.
Punjabi koftgari lockbox
Iron lockbox with key, decorated with the gold koftgari normally seen on arms.
A milam of the Garo
This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.
Milam
A peculiar double-edged sword of the Garo people.
A Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
Bikaner lance head
With square cross-section point and several Bikaner armory markings.
Sirōhī (सिरोही)
A town in Rajasthan known for its blade making industry, as well as a type of sword.
Goat hilted Khyber sword
With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.
Heavy Sikh chakram
Traditionally associated with Vishnu, it was an essential piece of equipment for the Sikh nihang.
Rajput sosun pattah
With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.
Sosun Pattah
With Persian wootz blade, engraved at forte with floral designs.
Kutch shamshir for Benson
Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
Talwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh
A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.
Indian spearheads and butt
A set for the beginning collector.
Khanda with etched blade
A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.
A fine north Indian dagger
Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.
Rajput
An Indian group of castes. Historically warrior castes.
Silver overlaid talwar hilt
Never mounted, still with the shop's wooden stopper.
Stone-hilted pesh-kabz
A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.
Pesh-kabz (پیش قبض)
Widely used Persian word for a type of dagger.
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword
With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.
An unusual ḍhāl
A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.
Dastānā (दस्ताने)
Hindi word for a type of arm protection.
Bāzuband (بازوبند)
Persian word for a piece of lower arm protection.
A Punjabi arm guard
Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.
Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.
Talwar with Mamluk style blade
In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.
A kirach with hunting scenes
Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.