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Antique Austrian - Russian Sword Hanger, 18th century
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Pre 1900 item# 818738 (stock# E343)
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Antique 18th century circa 1750 silver mounted officer Sword Couttoe –Hanger custom made for a Pandur officer. DETAILS: A hilt of characteristic Karabela form fitted with ivory grips-scales fluted and retained by three elaborate silver rivets and enclosed by silver straps. A solid silver cross-guard with short gadrooned quillons with lobe-shaped tips with a silver ferrule at the base stamped in several places with silver hallmarks. A slightly curved single – edged blade, double –edged toward the point with fuller, engraved on each face with a standing figure of Pandur with a sword and gun, and wearing on his head a colpack (Hungarian Hussar-style hat) with the engraved motto above "Vivat Pandur". With its original leather scabbard with horizontal – fluted silver locket and chape.
REFERENCES: In 1741, Franz Freiherr von der Trenck raised a corps of Pandurs in Slavonia for service in the War of Austrian Succession. Trenck was commended for his exceptionally successful raids against enemy supply lines and outpost, and he was asked to increase his corps from 1000 to 2600 men; there were as well Russian Pandurs: Regardind to Vlad Gromoboy. During the War of 1736-39 with Turkey, many volunteers from Serbia, Moldavia and Wallachia, entered Russian service when the war ended, most of them wished to stay in Russia, they were suggested either to enlist with the Russian regular army or to settle in the Southern regions of Ukraine. This predetermined the following development of Pandur troops in Russia: some of them became a part of the regular army, others formed a settled military like the Austrian Grenz military. Novaia Serbia had to provide 2 Pandur (Foot) Foot regiments were of 5 Grenadier & 15 Pandur (Musketeer) companies each. They were named 1-st & 2-nd. Later an independent garrison battalion in Novomirgorod was raised. It was of 1 Grenadier & 3 Pandur companies. The Russian Pandur infantry had a uniform and armament like the Austrian Grenz infantry. Since the Pandurs Regiments were in Austria and Russia, many silver mounted luxury officers swords were ordered and custom made in other countries as France or Germany, and the style of these particular swords were similar; it is uncertain whether this particular sword belonged to Russian or Austrian Pandurs.
CONDITION: The scabbard was broken and repaired in the lower part, missing the frog-button, Cracks in one of the ivory grips-scale otherwise in good condition.
MEASUREMENTS: The overall length of the sword in the scabbard is 65.7cm (25 7/8 in).
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Antique 18th century Indo Persian Helmet Kulah-Khud
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Pre 1800 item# 844825 (stock# ES413)
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Antique 18th century Indo Persian-Mughal, Kulah-Khud helmet with a hemi-spherical skull with a stout mounted long spike at the top, a pair of plume-holders, sliding nasal, retaining its original neck-defence camail of chain mail of rounded riveted links. The skull is chiseled over its entire surface with floral and creeper designs in medium relief damascened in silver koftgari. This helmet is much heavier than most of the Indo Persian Kulah-Khud helmets; the skull of the helmet is hammered from a single piece of thick solid steel with visible hammer marks in the interior but with a perfectly smooth surface.
MEASUREMENTS: Height from the top of the spike to the bottom of the mail: 51 cm (20 inches), Diameter: 20.3 cm (8 in).
REFERENCES: An almost identical helmet is in the collection of the National Museum of New Delhi dated to 1750, published in the"Indian Armours in the National Museum Collection Catalogue" by G.N.Pant and K.K.Sharma. Page 43 Figure 12, and also in the Indian book" Arms and Armour Volume III" by Dr. G.N. Pant plate CIX - CX. Dr. G.N. Pant - On page 1213 Plate XVIII.
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Antique 16th century European Halberd Head
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Pre 1900 item# 898734 (stock# E368)
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Authentic antique late 16th century Swiss Halberd head with stout central spike of diamond, a strongly crescentic axe-blade formed with a pair of lugs, a down curved shaped fluke with notched lugs stamped with the maker's mark, tapering socket and a pair of short straps.
CONDITION: One of the straps is with a horizontal crack, the other one is chipped, otherwise in good condition considering its age of approximately 400 years old.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 81.3 cm (32 in). The blade including fluke is 27.5 cm (10 3/4 inches) long and 16.7 cm (6 5/8 inches) tall.
REFERENCES: "Armoures Marks" by Dudley S. Hawtrey Gyngell, page 113. A halberd with exactly the same maker mark is in the Wallace Collection, published in the Wallace Catalogue, European Arms and Armour by Sir James Mann, page 453 No A966 with additional information that exactly the same marks appear on examples of halberds in the following world famous collections as: Tower of London (VII, 1028); the Boissonas Collection, formerly at Geneva (described by Buttin); the Zeughaus at Solothurn; The Musée de la Porte de Hal at Brussels; The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia; Metropolitan Museum, New York: and in Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin.
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Antique 18th century Polish Sword Karabela
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Pre 1900 item# 929586 (stock# E443)
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Rare Antique 18th century Polish Nobleman sword Karabela. DETAILS: A Steel hilt of characteristic Karabela form decorated throughout the grip and the crossguard in silver inlaid scrolling foliate and floral motifs. A slightly curved single edged Damascus steel blade with yelmen, a forte decorated on each side with silver inlaid ornaments and two panels containing ornaments stylized in Arabic scripts.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 92 cm (36 ¼ inches), length of the blade 77 cm (30 ¼ inches).
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age with a nice visible Damascus pattern.
REFERENCES: During the 17th -18th century most of the Polish Noblemen's swords were made in the Eastern – Turkish or Persian manner. A Similar Polish 18th century karabela sword with a steel hilt from the Charles XV King of Sweden collection is published in the
1. “White Arms of the Royal Armoury” by Lena Nordstrom
2. “Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons" by Leslie Southwick. Page 171 No 479, with the following note: “This high quality, but worn, sword differs from other karabelas in not having scales of horn, ivory or same other material riveted to the tang to form the grip”.
3. Furthermore a sword with a steel karabela hilt of similar contour of the grip is in the Hermitage Museum published in the Book "Fine Arms from Tula: Firearms and Edged weapons in the Hermitage, Leningrad" by Valentin Mavrodin. No124.
Pseudo Arabic scripts can be seen on many 17th and 18th century Polish and Russian sword blades since the Turkish or Persian Damascus steel blades were very highly prized by Eastern European nobles. Most of those blades are with a watered steel pattern decorated with pseudo Arabic writing since the Polish and Russian Swords smiths, as the rest of the people of those countries, did not know the Arabic alphabet to show that the sword blade is an actual luxurious blade imported from the Islamic world. However the Eastern European Damascus steel blades were with watered -patterns which were different from the Islamic as Turkish or Persian Damascus steel. The form of the hilt with rococo influence of this particular karabela is slightly different from the hilt of 17th century Islamic- Ottoman karabela and indicates that this sword was made in the late 18th century and for this period time is dated a sword in the Hermitage Museum published in the Book "Fine Arms from Tula".
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Antique German Hunting Crossbow, 18th Century
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Pre 1800 item# 843373 (stock# F3)
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Very well made late 18th century, circa 1780 AD German Hunting Crossbow. Details: wooden stock, brass and steel furniture, brass strengthening plate, tall block rear sight of pillar form with micro-adjustable peepholes and foresight.
MEASUREMENTS: overall length: 33 inches (84cm), heavy steel bow: 24 inches (61cm).
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Antique Turkish Ottoman Matchlock Gun Islamic Muske
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Pre 1700 item# 753046 (stock# ES347)
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A rare antique 17th century Turkish Ottoman matchlock musket. The musket has an octagonal Damascus steel barrel struck and inlaid in silver with the makers mark, and a figured Circassian walnut stock extensively chipped and cracked. Only a few Ottoman matchlock muskets of this type survive in Turkey, most can be seen outside of Turkey at museums in Poland and Ukraine as the muskets were taken from the Turks as bounty by the Poles and the Cossacks during the 17th century wars with the Ottoman Empire. Similar guns are published in the Turkish catalogue of Ottoman Firearms at the Askeri Military Museum Harbiye Istanbul. " Askeri Müze Osmanli Ve Cumhuriyet Dönemi ATEŞLI SILAHLAR kataloğu"by Aysel Çötelioğlu. These types of Turkish guns were very popular and widely used by Zaporozhian and Don Cossacks during the 17th century. Overall length: 127cm (50 in). We are shipping internationally.
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ANTIQUE INDO PERSIAN MATCHLOCK GUN MUSKET, 18th century
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Pre 1800 item# 572996 (stock# F35)
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Superb quality, early 18th century, Northern Indian Mughal matchlock musket -Toradar. DETAILS: steel side panels with pierced borders, long 118.8 cm (46 ¾ inches) tapered octagonal barrel, seven brass barrel bands, silver ramrod pipe complete with steel ramrod, mahogany full stock and ebonized serpentine housing, stock of typical form with slender butt of pentagonal form ended with horn buttpads, pierced steel leaf form trigger.
CONDITION: excellent.
MEASUREMENTS: overall length: 169 cm (66 ¼ inches).
REFERENCES: “Firearms Of The Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait” by Robert Elgood.
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