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A Sinhalese knife

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

€200,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

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

€1500,-
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,-
Sinhalese pihiya

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

€1800,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.

€1800,-
Large tin chirra kothimora khukuri

An exceptionally large example with a desirable three fullered blade.

€2200,-
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,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
Silver chevron katar

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

€3800,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.

€5000,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

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

€5400,-
Flintlock lance

A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.

€7500,-