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Indian Jade mounted dagger

Nice and complete with opaque green hilt and scabbard mounts.

Price on request
Indian enamel and wootz dagger

With designs of animals, often attributed to Lucknow, north India.

Price on request
Very good Deccan chilanum

A large example in excellent state of preservation.

Price on request
Heavy armor piercing katar

With a narrow blade of impressive thickness. Attributable to the Bundelkhand area.

€1600,-
Large southern silver gilt katar

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

€2400,-
Silver chevron katar

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

€3800,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

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

€5400,-
Gilt-copper hilted kard

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

€2200,-
Southern katar with yali langets

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

€1650,-
Sinhalese pihiya

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

€1800,-
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,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
A Sinhalese knife

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

€200,-
Chilanum dagger

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

€2300,-