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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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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,-
Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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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.

€5200,-
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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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 charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

A remarkable example of bladesmithing with a 5 row twist-core pattern that meanders over the blade.

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Khanda with etched blade

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

€3500,-
Afghan military saber

With an armory stamp dated Hijri 1326, corresponding to about 1908.

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Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Silver overlaid talwar hilt

Never mounted, still with the shop's wooden stopper.

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Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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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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Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled 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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Fine Ottoman yatağan dated 1809

Made by a maker called Noah in 1809 for a certain Mehemmed Ağa Fî. With beautiful golden overlays on blade.

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Yatağan dated 1790-1791

An old warhorse with several repairs.

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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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Talwar hilted shamshir

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

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Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.

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Very fine Sinhalese kasthāné

With parcel gilding and ruby eyes, in a fine silver repousse scabbard.

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An Ottoman coral studded pala

With gilt copper scabbard and multi-row twist-core blade.

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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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Bhutanese sword in tribal scabbard

With early pierced iron pommel and a style of scabbard worn in Arunachal Pradesh.

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Early Indian khanda

An early version of this iconic Indian weapon, with its characteristic swollen tip.

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Early Indian fighting sword

With a recurved blade and elaborate bronze hilt decorated with chakras.

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Early chilanum hilt

An old bronze hilt in the shape of chilanum hilts.

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Saber of Bhima Nayak

A south Indian saber carrying the name "Sri Bhima Nayak".

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Large Mughal saber

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

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Large wootz talwar

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

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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.

€6500,-
Indian teghá with fine hilt

With wide, pattern-welded blade.

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Vijayanagara "pata"

A very early example of the type, with locally made rapier style blade.

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Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen with VOC blade and ruby-set scabbard.

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Sinhalese export sword guard

A large circular Asian export sword guard with elaborate decor carved in relief on both sides.

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A very good Afghan pulouar

With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.

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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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Chiseled iron Hindu basket hilt

With blackened iron panels with decorative borders carved in relief.

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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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Fine Canton-style export sword guard

Introduction Many Asian export sword guards, and later Japanese guards inspired by them

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A fine silver hilted kasthāné

Of the Royal Workshops of the Kingdom of Khandy.

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Talwar with southern style hilt

With a curved hollow ground blade with a narrow dorsal groove and false backedge.

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An exceptional khanda

With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt

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A fine Indian sword

This one is for the connoisseur of blades.

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Large all-steel khanda

Introduction The khanda represents one of the oldest forms of Indian sword

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