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  • Deccan firanghi

    Deccan firanghi with silver overlay

    The basket hilt is elaborately overlaid with silver in floral designs.

    €8000,-
  •  Indian flintlock lance logo

    Flintlock lance

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

    €7500,-
  • North Indian kirach with Persian wootz export blade

    Interesting kirach with dated hilt

    Mentioning the son of a Maharajah and a year corresponding to 1887 A.D.

    €6000,-
  • Indian jade hilted dagger

    Indian jade hilted dagger

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

    €5400,-
  • Rajput katar with rubies logo

    Rajput katar with rubies and diamonds

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

    €3900,-
  • Silver chevron katar

    Silver chevron katar

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

    €3800,-
  • Khasi dao

    A Khasi dao

    These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

    €3200,-
  • Deccan talwar of William Fraser logo

    A Fraser talwar from the Deccan

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

    Reserved
  • Tipu mania child's talwar logo

    Southern Indian child's talwar

    With an inscription alluding to it having belonged to the son of Tipu Sultan.

    €2500,-
  • South-indian-silver-gilt-katar

    Large southern silver gilt katar

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

    €2400,-
  • Chilanum dagger

    Chilanum dagger

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

    €2300,-
  • Marwar talwar with dated hilt

    Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

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

    €2200,-
  • Gilt copper hilted kard dagger logo

    Gilt-copper hilted kard

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

    €2200,-
  • Rare Santali shield logo

    Rare Santali shield

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

    €2000,-
  • North Indian zulfiqar sword logo

    Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

    With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

    €2000,-
  • Milam sword of the Garo people of Assam

    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,-
  • Sinhalese pihiya logo

    Sinhalese pihiya

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

    €1800,-
  • Rare bifurcated Khond axe

    Rare bifurcated Khond axe

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

    €1650,-
  • Sinhalese piha-kaetta logo

    A fine, heavy piha kaetta

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

    €1650,-
  • South Indian katar with yali logo

    Southern katar with yali langets

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

    €1650,-
  • Sinhalese pihiya logo

    An early "piha-kaetta"

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

    €1500,-
  • Kutch Jambiya logo

    A gilt Indian jambiya

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

    €1500,-
  • North Indian antelope axe

    Indian Antelope Axe

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

    €1200,-
  • Ramree Veteran khukurī logo

    Ramree veteran khukurī

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

    €400,-
  • Sinhalese dagger logo

    Sinhalese kirichchiya

    With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

    €300,-
  • Simple Sinhalese pihiya

    A Sinhalese knife

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

    €300,-

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