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Silver overlaid talwar hilt

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

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A remarkable Khond axe

The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

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A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

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South Indian spearhead

From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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South Indian tungi axe

A relatively rare variety of an Indian war axe, called tungi.

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South Indian spear butt

Made of iron, weighted with two flattened spheres, all with chiseled decoration.

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A northern katar in southern style

Exhibiting southern style beaded edges with northern style construction and gold.

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South Indian chiseled iron katar

A nice honest example of an early south Indian katar with great sculptural qualities.

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Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard

A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.

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A very good ul-pihiya

A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

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A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.

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A parakeet shaped ankus head

Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.

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A south Indian ankus head

South India, made of chiseled iron with bird-bodied yali creatures.

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Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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An unusual ḍhāl

A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.

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A Punjabi arm guard

Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.

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A katar with true inlay decoration

Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.

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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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Indian pata with Solingen blade

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

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Various Indian arrows

An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.

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A gilt Indian jambiya

With gilt-copper hilt and scabbard done in beautiful Kutch style repousse work.

€1500,-
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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Sinhalese ul-pihiya

A rare example retaining its original silver covered scabbard.

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Silver plated Tanjore spearhead

A large and heavy example with chiseled decor and silver overlaid base.

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Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
The khukri of Peter L. Achard

Also known as kothimora khukuri, in a scabbard with repousse silver mounts.

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Sinhalese lacquered cane

Description An antique Sinhalese walking cane, made of a light and relatively flexible

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A fine walking cane from Madras

Made of a beautiful piece of black zitan hardwood, carved in a spiral, topped with a silver knob.

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Sadeli walking cane

Covered almost entirely in very fine "sadeli" marquetry that is associated primarily with Gujarat.

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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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Simple hooded katar

Of a type that is strongly associated with the Vijayanagara empire.

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A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

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A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

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A Deccan chilanum

With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.

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Katar with complex ribbed blade

A substantial example, of elegant form, with a complex grooved blade.

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South Indian loop hilted dagger

Introduction Indian loop hilted dagger are generally called bichuwa (बिछुवा )

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A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€300,-
A fine Sinhalese bow

Made in the Four Workshops of the King of Kandy.

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A Sinhalese lacquered bow

With classic cinnabar red, yellow, green and black lacquered decoration.

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