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Large southern silver gilt katar

Its hilt overlaid with thick silver, then fire-gilt.

€2400,-
Group of mounted Indian arrows

Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.

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Flintlock lance

A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.

€7500,-
Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)

North Indian shield entirely made of wootz, including its bosses.

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Southern Indian child's talwar

With an inscription alluding to it having belonged to the son of Tipu Sultan.

€2500,-
Rajput katar with rubies and diamonds

Of steel construction with gold overlay. Of a type produced in Rajasthan in the early 1800s.

€3900,-
Silver chevron katar

All the designs being true inlay, with almost no losses.

€3800,-
Garsoee katar

An enigmatic type of katar produced in various places in India.

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Indian jade hilted dagger

With wootz blade and the jade hilt set with small rubies.

€5400,-
Gilt-copper hilted kard

Fine Indian kard with gilt copper alloy hilt, decorated with chiseled flowers.

€2200,-
Firanghi with gold overlaid hilt

The manner of decoration is entirely geometrical, which is very hard to do right.

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Ganga Jamni decorated kard

Ganga - Jamni refers to the rivers of the Ganges and Jamna. It was used to describe metalwork done in contrasting…

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Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

The hilt is in the typical Marwari Rajput style, made by Ram Namar in 1857 A.D.

€2200,-
A Fraser talwar from the Deccan

Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.

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A Fraser talwar, 18th century

Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.

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Southern katar with yali langets

Of a style often associated with Tanjore, the seat of the Vijayanagara empire.

€1650,-
Southern katar with thick point

The blade with an extremely thick point on a very thin blade.

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Double bladed katar

Also called jamdhar doulicaneh. Forged from a single piece of steel, complete with scabbard.

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Northern wootz katar

With different types of decor on either side of the hilt.

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Vijayanagara hooded katar

With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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Rare Santali shield

Peculiar shield with catching hook, used by the Santali people of Bengal.

€2000,-
Indian Antelope Axe

An enigmatic type of axe, this one probably from tribal north India.

€1200,-
Slender chilanum dagger

Of elegant form with very crisp blade.

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Sinhalese pihiya

A beautiful black coral hilted example, made in the King's workshops.

€1800,-
Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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Sikh fighting chakram

A sharp, heavier user. Not the flimsy type usually encountered.

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Deccan firanghi with silver overlay

The basket hilt is elaborately overlaid with silver in floral designs.

€8000,-
Interesting kirach with dated hilt

Mentioning the son of a Maharajah and a year corresponding to 1887 A.D.

€6000,-
Fine 17th century pattissa

The enormous blade made of fine, boldly contrasting wootz steel.

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Rare bifurcated Khond axe

Very rare subtype of a Khond tribal axe with double points.

€1650,-
Early Indian shield

Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss

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Malabar coast Moplah sword

A fine and somewhat unusual specimen, with engraved brass mounts and hardwood grip.

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Punjabi koftgari lockbox

Iron lockbox with key, decorated with the gold koftgari normally seen on arms.

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A milam of the Garo

This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.

€1800,-
A Khasi dao

These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

€3200,-
Bikaner lance head

With square cross-section point and several Bikaner armory markings.

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Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

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Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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Heavy Sikh chakram

Traditionally associated with Vishnu, it was an essential piece of equipment for the Sikh nihang.

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Rajput sosun pattah

With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.

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Sosun Pattah

With Persian wootz blade, engraved at forte with floral designs.

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Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

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Talwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh

A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.

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Vijayanagara katar

A 16th hooded katar with the wide, ribbed blade that is characteristic for this period.

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Nayar ritual sword

An unusually ornate iteration of the design, intended for Hindu ceremonies.

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South Indian pattissa

An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

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Khanda with etched blade

A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

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A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

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Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

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