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  • Southern katar

    Southern katar with thick point

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

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  • Double bladed katar

    Double bladed katar

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

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  • Northern wootz katar logo

    Northern wootz katar

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

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  • Vijayanagara katar logo

    Vijayanagara hooded katar

    With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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  • Slender chilanum dagger logo

    Slender chilanum dagger

    Of elegant form with very crisp blade.

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  • Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

    Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

    The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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  • Indian talwar with 1693 dated blade logo

    Talwar with 1693 dated blade

    With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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  • Sikh chakram

    Sikh fighting chakram

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

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  • 17th century pattisa logo

    Fine 17th century pattissa

    The enormous blade made of fine, boldly contrasting wootz steel.

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  • unusual-indian-single-boss-shield

    Early Indian shield

    Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss

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  • Malabar coast Moplah sword logo

    Malabar coast Moplah sword

    A fine and somewhat unusual specimen, with engraved brass mounts and hardwood grip.

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  • Punjab koftgari lockbox logo

    Punjabi koftgari lockbox

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

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  • Bikaner lance

    Bikaner lance head

    With square cross-section point and several Bikaner armory markings.

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  • Goat hilted Khyber sword logo

    Goat hilted Khyber sword

    With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

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  • Pata with Solingen blade

    Solingen blade with pata hilt

    Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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  • Chakram logo

    Heavy Sikh chakram

    Traditionally associated with Vishnu, it was an essential piece of equipment for the Sikh nihang.

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  • Rajput sosun pattah

    Rajput sosun pattah

    With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.

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  • Sosun pattah

    Sosun Pattah

    With Persian wootz blade, engraved at forte with floral designs.

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  • Kutch pattern welded Shamshir made for Benson

    Kutch shamshir for Benson

    Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

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  • Marwar talwar presented to Mohta Bakhtawar Singh logo

    Talwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh

    A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.

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  • Vijayanagara hooded katar logo

    Vijayanagara katar

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

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  • Nayar sword logo

    Nayar ritual sword

    An unusually ornate iteration of the design, intended for Hindu ceremonies.

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  • 16th century pattisa logo

    South Indian pattisa

    An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.

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  • Boy's brass hilted pata

    Boy's brass hilted patá

    With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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  • Indian spearheads and spear butt logo

    Indian spearheads and butt

    A set for the beginning collector.

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  • Indian khanda with etched blade

    Khanda with etched blade

    A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

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  • Indian dagger

    A fine north Indian dagger

    Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

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  • Indian madu parrying weapon

    Indian madu parrying weapon

    Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

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  • Tiger stripe talwar

    Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

    With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

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  • Talwar hilt logo

    Silver overlaid talwar hilt

    Never mounted, still with the shop's wooden stopper.

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  • Very fine Khond axe logo

    A remarkable Khond axe

    The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

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  • Sinhalese coral hilted knife

    Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

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  • South Indian spearhead logo

    South Indian spearhead

    From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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  • South Indian tungi axe logo

    South Indian tungi axe

    A relatively rare variety of an Indian war axe, called tungi.

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  • South Indian spear butt logo

    South Indian spear butt

    Made of iron, weighted with two flattened spheres, all with chiseled decoration.

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  • Northern katar with southern design logo

    A northern katar in southern style

    Exhibiting southern style beaded edges with northern style construction and gold.

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  • 17th century chiseled iron katar logo

    South Indian chiseled iron katar

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

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  • Fine piha-kaetta with velvet scabbard

    Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard

    A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.

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  • Very good Sinhalese ul-pihiya

    A very good ul-pihiya

    A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

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  • Stone hilted pesh-kabz logo

    Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

    A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.

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  • Ankus head logo

    A parakeet shaped ankus head

    Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.

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  • South Indian ankus head

    A south Indian ankus head

    South India, made of chiseled iron with bird-bodied yali creatures.

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  • North Indian zulfiqar sword logo

    Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

    With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

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  • Burmese hilted wakizashi in Indian scabbard logo

    Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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  • Indian shield logo

    An unusual ḍhāl

    A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.

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  • Dastana logo

    A Punjabi arm guard

    Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.

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  • North Indian katar with true inlay hilt

    A katar with true inlay decoration

    Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.

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  • Fine wootz talwar

    Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard

    With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.

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  • Talwar with Mamluk style blade decor

    Talwar with Mamluk style blade

    In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

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  • Chiseled kirach from Lahore

    A kirach with hunting scenes

    Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.

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  • Solingen pata logo

    Indian pata with Solingen blade

    With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.

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  • Indian arrows

    Various Indian arrows

    An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.

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