Full wootz kard
...and some gold.
Parrot hilt wootz khanjar
With vintage silver mounted scabbard.
Fine Kutch horse head shamshir
The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.
Indian Jade mounted dagger
Nice and complete with opaque green hilt and scabbard mounts.
Fine wootz khanjar
With early blade of "brilliant black" wootz.
Agate hilted wootz khanjar
Nice Persian dagger with fine wootz blade and unusual hilt material.
Silver overlaid Tibetan shortsword
With a rare, finely forged double hairpin blade.
Silver chevron katar
All the designs being true inlay, with almost no losses.
Indian jade hilted dagger
With wootz blade and the jade hilt set with small rubies.
Gilt-copper hilted kard
Fine Indian kard with gilt copper alloy hilt, decorated with chiseled flowers.
Persian wootz double spearhead
Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.
Persian wootz spearhead
Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.
Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger
Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.
Kutch shamshir for Benson
Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
South Indian pattissa
An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.
A fine north Indian dagger
Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.
Palembang twist-core pedang
A Palembang style sword with a fine twist-core blade and carved hardwood scabbard.
Damascening
Inlaying or overlaying of gold or silver on another metal.
A katar with true inlay decoration
Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.
Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.
Talwar hilted shamshir
With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.
Wootz
Description
Wootz is the commonly used name for a type of crucible steel with an elaborate pattern
Phaulād (फौलाद्)
Nepali word for wootz, a type of prized crucible steel.
Ispāt (इस्पात्)
Nepali word for steel.
A curved Deccan katar
With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.
A Deccan chilanum
With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.
Large wootz talwar
The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.
Sikkim "ban" sword
With finer forge folded blade than most of its type.
Nanban tetsu (南蠻鉃)
Literally: Southern barbarian steel.
Tachi tsuba of nanban tetsu
A rare 17th-century sword guard made of foreign steel.
A finely forged kora
With very good pattern welded blade, complete with scabbard.
A very good Afghan pulouar
With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.
Damascus steel
A rather broad term that is used to describe steel that exhibits a fancy pattern.
Twist-core steel
A type of pattern-welding using twisted rods of steel.
Huāwéngāng (花文鋼)
A type of pattern welding known in English as twist-core.
A large Indian karud dagger
Unusually large and with all-metal handle that opens with a screw.
An exceptional khanda
With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt
Zhibeidao with spectacular blade
Introduction to the type
This type of sword is referred to as zhibeidao
Tibetan shortsword with rare blade
With ce rong or "open ravines" pattern of zig-zag lines in the steel.
A fine khanda with pierced hilt
Presented here is a beautiful khanda with an exceptionally fine pierced hilt.
All steel / wootz dagger
The slender blade is made of flawless wootz steel in boldly contrasting shades of silver and dark grey.
Chinese twistcore presentation saber
An unusually large presentation saber in the style of high-end Chinese military sabers.
Chinese saber with U-grooves
With twist-core steel and of early liuyedao form. Probably 17th century.
A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade
With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.
Trousse with "horse-tooth" blade
Accomplished by bending the edge up and down alternately and polishing it smooth again.
Rare Chinese twistcore saber
Background
Most Chinese swords and sabers are made with a hard high carbon steel edge plate sandwich