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Sikh fighting chakram

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

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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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Sinhalese pihiya

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

€1800,-
Slender chilanum dagger

Of elegant form with very crisp blade.

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Indian Antelope Axe

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

€900,-
Rare Santali shield

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

€2000,-
Vijayanagara hooded katar

With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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Northern wootz katar

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

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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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Southern katar with thick point

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

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Southern katar with yali langets

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

€1650,-
A Fraser talwar, 18th century

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

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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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Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

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

€2200,-
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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Firanghi with gold overlaid hilt

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

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Gilt-copper hilted kard

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

€2200,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

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

€5400,-
Garsoee katar

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

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Silver chevron katar

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

€3800,-
Rajput katar with rubies and diamonds

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

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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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Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)

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

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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,-
Group of mounted Indian arrows

Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.

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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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Punjabi khanda for court of Ratlam

The hilt carries an inscription dating it to 1841.

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Large southern silver gilt katar

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

€2400,-