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Heavy Rajput katar

A heavy Indian katar with substantial armor piercing blade.

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All steel / wootz dagger

The slender blade is made of flawless wootz steel in boldly contrasting shades of silver and dark grey.

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A south Indian spearhead

A large example of a type called sang.

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A South Indian khanjarli

A fine, early example with silver-plated details.

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A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

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An early "piha-kaetta"

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

€1500,-
Early Indian fighting sword

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

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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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South Indian chiseled iron katar

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

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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 gilt Indian jambiya

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

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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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Rare bifurcated Khond axe

Very rare subtype of a Khond tribal axe with double points.

€1650,-
Southern katar with yali langets

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

€1650,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

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

€1650,-
Katar with complex ribbed blade

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

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Northern wootz katar

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

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Sinhalese pihiya

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

€1800,-
Double bladed katar

Also called jamdhar doulicaneh. Forged from a single piece of steel, complete with scabbard.

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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,-
Vijayanagara "pata"

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

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Vijayanagara katar

A 16th hooded katar with the wide, ribbed blade that is characteristic for this period.

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Rare Santali shield

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

€2000,-
A Fraser talwar, 18th century

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

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A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade

With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.

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A large and very good khanjarli

With lunette pommel of ivory plates.

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Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

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A Sinhalese kasthāné

An impressively large kasthāné, dating from the 18th century.

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Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.

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An Indian matchlock musket

A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.

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A fine Indian toradar with inlaid stock

General introduction A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inl

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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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Sikh fighting chakram

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

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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,-
Deccan katar with Bikaner marks

With a hilt that is of typical southern form, with a cupped base and langets.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

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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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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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Gilt-copper hilted kard

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

€2200,-
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€2300,-
Large southern silver gilt katar

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

€2400,-
Large spearhead from South India

An unusual type with a broad leaf-shaped head with deep sunken panels.

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A very good ul-pihiya

A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

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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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A large pihiya kättha

A massive example weighing just over 800 grams. With scabbard.

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South Indian loop hilted dagger

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

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A Deccan chilanum

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

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A fine bichuwa with gold decor

A north Indian bichuwa dagger with recurved blade and richly decorated hilt.

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A Sinhalese spear

A nice example of a rare type of weapon from the Sinhalese arsenal.

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Punjabi koftgari lockbox

Iron lockbox with key, decorated with the gold koftgari normally seen on arms.

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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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