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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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A south Indian ankus head

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

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A parakeet shaped ankus head

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

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Three Indian anti-siege arrows

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

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Boy's katar

A miniature piece meant for use by a small boy.

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Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

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Silver overlaid talwar hilt

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

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Various Indian arrows

An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.

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Seven Indian broadhead arrows

With fairly large broadheads, painted tails and bulbous nocks.

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South Indian spear butt

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

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Simple hooded katar

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

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Early chilanum hilt

An old bronze hilt in the shape of chilanum hilts.

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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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Fine Canton-style export sword guard

Introduction Many Asian export sword guards, and later Japanese guards inspired by them

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Five Indian arrows

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

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A Sinhalese lacquered bow

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

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Eight Indian bodkin arrows

Fitted with strong, facetted armor-piercing heads.

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A large Indian karud dagger

Unusually large and with all-metal handle that opens with a screw.

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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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Indian javelin head

With leaf-shaped blade with strong ribbed feature on either side.

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Sinhalese lacquered cane

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

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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 knife and stylus

Fitting in a single scabbard. Modest for Sinhalese work.

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Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

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Indian signed dhal from Gujarat

An interesting Indian dhal, a small shield that was signed by its maker from Gujarat.

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Talwar with southern style hilt

With a curved hollow ground blade with a narrow dorsal groove and false backedge.

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Bikaner lance head

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

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Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

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South Indian tungi axe

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

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Saber of Bhima Nayak

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

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A northern katar in southern style

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

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Early Indian khanda

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

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12 North Indian arrows

With katar-tipped heads and dark brown shafts.

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An Indian kard dagger

With a good quality wootz blade.

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A Bikaner armory dagger

A rare, early south Indian dagger with Bikaner armory markings

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Axe with Anup Singh inscription

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

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Bikaner war axe

Introduction This type of axe was part of the standard equipment of the

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All-steel Bundi katar

The blade features a sunken panel with very finely chiseled "tree of life" motiff of small leaves.

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An unusual pihiya (piha kaetta)

Probably from the late Kandyan period.

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Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

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

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Southern katar with thick point

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

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Golden damascened boy's katar

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

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South Indian spearhead

From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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Heavy Rajput katar

A heavy Indian katar with substantial armor piercing blade.

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All steel / wootz dagger

The slender blade is made of flawless wootz steel in boldly contrasting shades of silver and dark grey.

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A south Indian spearhead

A large example of a type called sang.

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An unusual ḍhāl

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

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South Indian chiseled iron katar

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

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A South Indian khanjarli

A fine, early example with silver-plated details.

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A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

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Early Indian fighting sword

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

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