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Group of mounted Indian arrows

Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.

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Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)

North Indian shield entirely made of wootz, including its bosses.

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Early Mughal kapwah

An over 400-year-old Mughal court dagger. Once lavishly decorated with gold.

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Garsoee katar

An enigmatic type of katar produced in various places in India.

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Firanghi with gold overlaid hilt

The manner of decoration is entirely geometrical, which is very hard to do right.

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Ganga Jamni decorated kard

Ganga - Jamni refers to the rivers of the Ganges and Jamna. It was used to describe metalwork done in contrasting…

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A Fraser talwar, 18th century

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

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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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Double bladed katar

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

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Northern wootz katar

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

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Vijayanagara hooded katar

With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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Slender chilanum dagger

Of elegant form with very crisp 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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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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Sikh fighting chakram

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

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Fine 17th century pattissa

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

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Early Indian shield

Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss

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Malabar coast Moplah sword

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

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Gilt Ottoman made sabiki

The long version of the jambiya, with blackened, gold inlaid blade.

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Punjabi koftgari lockbox

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

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Bikaner lance head

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

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Persian wootz double spearhead

Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.

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Persian wootz spearhead

Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.

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Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

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Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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Persian wootz axe

With fine chiseled decoration and largely intact koftgari.

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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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Rajput sosun pattah

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

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Sosun Pattah

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

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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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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 katar

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

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Nayar ritual sword

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

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South Indian pattissa

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

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Central Asian dated kard 1709

With wootz blade inlaid in gold with the name of the maker and the owner.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

A remarkable example of bladesmithing with a 5 row twist-core pattern that meanders over the blade.

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Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

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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 north Indian dagger

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

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Afghan military saber

With an armory stamp dated Hijri 1326, corresponding to about 1908.

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Ottoman Kurdish kalkan

A small, heavily reinforced buckler as used by Ottoman Kurdish infantry.

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Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

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Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

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Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

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Silver overlaid talwar hilt

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

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A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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A remarkable Khond axe

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

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A Persian crescent axe

With lacquered shaft. Previously sold at Sotheby's in 1985.

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Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

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A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

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