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Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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South Indian pattissa

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

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Fine Kutch horse head shamshir

The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.

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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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Signed Sikh talwar, dated 1838

Of Punjabi make, inscribed inside the knuckle guard as being presented by Sukhu Singh in 1838.

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Punjabi khanda for court of Ratlam

The hilt carries an inscription dating it to 1841.

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Nayar ritual sword

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

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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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An exceptional khanda

With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt

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Firanghi with gold overlaid hilt

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

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Fine 17th century pattissa

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

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Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard

With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.

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A fine khanda with pierced hilt

Presented here is a beautiful khanda with an exceptionally fine pierced hilt.

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Fine dated talwar from Ratlam

With Mamluk style blade decor and inscriptions on both blade and hilt.

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North Indian sosun pattah

A very good example of a sosun pattah, or "lily leaf", of elegant form.

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Sosun Pattah

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

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Deccan firanghi with silver overlay

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

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Large Mughal saber

With Persian inspired blade in Hindu basket hilt, both of fine wootz.

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Indian Pata with Kutch style decor

A serious weapon with a very good blade and heavy plating.

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Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.

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South Indian cobra tip sword

An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip.

€6500,-
Interesting kirach with dated hilt

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

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Indian sawfish rostrum sword

Consisting of a painted sawfish rostrum on a talwar hilt.

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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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Large all-steel khanda

Introduction The khanda represents one of the oldest forms of In

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A fine Indian sword

This one is for the connoisseur of blades.

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Early Mughal talwar

It has a narrow but thick blade with an elegant curve and a raised backedge, all reminiscent of earlier steppe sabers.

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South Indian brass hilted talwar

The hilt with remains of silver plating.

€3800,-
Serrated edge talwar

With gold koftgari decorated hilt.

€3500,-
Kayamkulam sword

Of the Malabar coast, South India.

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Khanda with etched blade

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

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Indian teghá with fine hilt

With wide, pattern-welded blade.

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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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Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

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Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

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A kirach with hunting scenes

Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.

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A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Heavy wootz hilted talwar

IntroductionThe talwar or talvār

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Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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Chiseled iron Hindu basket hilt

With blackened iron panels with decorative borders carved in relief.

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A Fraser talwar from the Deccan

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

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Hooded sword katar

Extremely large example with nearly full-length Western blade.

€2750,-
Talwar hilted shamshir

With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.

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Rajput sosun pattah

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

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Large wootz talwar

The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.

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Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.

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Southern Indian child's talwar

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

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Indian pata with Solingen blade

With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.

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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.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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A Fraser talwar, 18th century

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

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