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A katar with true inlay decoration

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

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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

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

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A kirach with hunting scenes

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

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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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Various Indian arrows

An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.

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Talwar hilted shamshir

With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.

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Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.

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Very fine Sinhalese kasthāné

With parcel gilding and ruby eyes, in a fine silver repousse scabbard.

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Sinhalese ul-pihiya

A rare example retaining its original silver covered scabbard.

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Silver plated Tanjore spearhead

A large and heavy example with chiseled decor and silver overlaid base.

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The khukri of Peter L. Achard

Also known as kothimora khukuri, in a scabbard with repousse silver mounts.

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Sinhalese lacquered cane

Description An antique Sinhalese walking cane, made of a light and relatively flexible

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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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Sadeli walking cane

Covered almost entirely in very fine "sadeli" marquetry that is associated primarily with Gujarat.

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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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Early Indian khanda

An early version of this iconic Indian weapon, with its characteristic swollen tip.

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Early Indian fighting sword

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

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Early chilanum hilt

An old bronze hilt in the shape of chilanum hilts.

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Simple hooded katar

Of a type that is strongly associated with the Vijayanagara empire.

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A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

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A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

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A Deccan chilanum

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

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Katar with complex ribbed blade

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

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South Indian loop hilted dagger

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

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A fine Sinhalese bow

Made in the Four Workshops of the King of Kandy.

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A Sinhalese lacquered bow

With classic cinnabar red, yellow, green and black lacquered decoration.

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Three Indian war arrows

Fitted with facetted armor-piercing bodkins type arrowheads.

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Two Indian flight arrows

Light and slender arrows with small metal tips, optimized for long-distance shooting.

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Three Indian anti-siege arrows

Named so due to their extremely heavy, bullet-shaped arrowheads.

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Five Indian arrows

From the same set, but with a variety of different arrowheads.

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Eight Indian bodkin arrows

Fitted with strong, facetted armor-piercing heads.

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Seven Indian broadhead arrows

With fairly large broadheads, painted tails and bulbous nocks.

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Saber of Bhima Nayak

A south Indian saber carrying the name "Sri Bhima Nayak".

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Unusual khanjarli

With straight blade and two opposing Yali chiseled out of the forte of the blade.

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A katar from Bundi

The style typical for royal katar made under Maharao Ram Singh.

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Large wootz talwar

The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.

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18th century northern katar

With high-contrast wootz blade and fine damascening in two tones of gold.

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Golden damascened boy's katar

A rare example with pattern welded blade, retaining its original scabbard.

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A South Indian khanjarli

A fine, early example with silver-plated details.

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North Indian composite bow

With whimsical tiger and deer decoration.

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Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.

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Fine mail shirt, Sikh Empire

With a lozenge pattern of brass rings.

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Large spearhead from South India

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

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Boy's katar

A miniature piece meant for use by a small boy.

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Indian teghá with fine hilt

With wide, pattern-welded blade.

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Axe with Anup Singh inscription

With a samvat date that corresponds to 1691 A.D.

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Two fine north Indian arrows

With points mimicking the shape of the Indian push dagger called "katar".

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Vijayanagara "pata"

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

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North Indian katar with tools

With a fine wootz blade with a pronounced center ridge.

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Sinhalese knife and stylus

Fitting in a single scabbard. Modest for Sinhalese work.

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A large pihiya kättha

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

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