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Indian teghá with fine hilt

With wide, pattern-welded blade.

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North Indian composite bow

With whimsical tiger and deer decoration.

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Kayamkulam sword

Of the Malabar coast, South India.

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Tanjore spearhead

Description A south Indian spearhead with a thick double-edged, symmetrical leaf-shaped

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Silver Sinhalese ul-pihiya

A fine Kandyan knife, or ul-pihiya, probably mid 18th century.

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Khanda with etched blade

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

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A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

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A fine north Indian dagger

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

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North Indian katar with tools

With a fine wootz blade with a pronounced center ridge.

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South Indian pierced iron ankus

Its decoration consists of fantastic designs of various animals, mythical and existing.

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Heavy Sikh chakram

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

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Vijayanagara hooded katar

With a shield that reminds of Deccan cuirasses.

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Indian revolving musket

The main disadvantage of early firearms was the long time it took to reload them.

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A fine Indian sword

This one is for the connoisseur of blades.

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Large all-steel khanda

Introduction The khanda represents one of the oldest forms of Indian sword

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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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Early Indian shield

Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss

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Kutch shamshir for Benson

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

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A gilt katar with spiraled hilt

In a style associated with Maharao Raja Ram Singh.

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Vijayanagara hooded katar

With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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Golden Bundi style katar

From the collection of Dr. Leo Figiel.

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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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Indian Pata with Kutch style decor

A serious weapon with a very good blade and heavy plating.

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Sosun Pattah

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

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Fine mail shirt, Sikh Empire

With a lozenge pattern of brass rings.

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A fine silver hilted kasthāné

Of the Royal Workshops of the Kingdom of Khandy.

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North Indian sosun pattah

A very good example of a sosun pattah, or "lily leaf", of elegant form.

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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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Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen with VOC blade and ruby-set scabbard.

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Very fine Sinhalese kasthāné

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

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An exceptional khanda

With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt

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Fine 17th century pattissa

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

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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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Nayar ritual sword

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

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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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South Indian pattisa

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

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Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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