A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade
With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.
SoldA fine khanda with pierced hilt
Presented here is a beautiful khanda with an exceptionally fine pierced hilt.
GalleryTalwar with southern style hilt
With a curved hollow ground blade with a narrow dorsal groove and false backedge.
SoldSouth Indian pierced iron ankus
Its decoration consists of fantastic designs of various animals, mythical and existing.
SoldChiseled iron Hindu basket hilt
With blackened iron panels with decorative borders carved in relief.
SoldNorth Indian sosun pattah
A very good example of a sosun pattah, or "lily leaf", of elegant form.
SoldMamluk style sword in talwar hilt
Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.
SoldEarly Indian fighting sword
With a recurved blade and elaborate bronze hilt decorated with chakras.
SoldEarly Indian khanda
An early version of this iconic Indian weapon, with its characteristic swollen tip.
SoldBhutanese sword in tribal scabbard
With early pierced iron pommel and a style of scabbard worn in Arunachal Pradesh.
SoldFine dated talwar from Ratlam
With Mamluk style blade decor and inscriptions on both blade and hilt.
GallerySadeli walking cane
Covered almost entirely in very fine "sadeli" marquetry that is associated primarily with Gujarat.
SoldA fine walking cane from Madras
Made of a beautiful piece of black zitan hardwood, carved in a spiral, topped with a silver knob.
SoldIndian pata with Solingen blade
With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.
SoldA kirach with hunting scenes
Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.
SoldWootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.
SoldWakizashi in Burmese hilt
An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.
SoldA parakeet shaped ankus head
Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.
SoldSouth Indian pattissa
An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.
SoldTalwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh
A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.
SoldKutch shamshir for Benson
Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
SoldRajput sosun pattah
With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.
SoldHeavy Sikh chakram
Traditionally associated with Vishnu, it was an essential piece of equipment for the Sikh nihang.
SoldA Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
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