A nice tanged bronze dagger from the Ancient Near East, Caspian Sea Area, Mid-late Bronze age, 2nd. mill. BC.

Slim blade with rounded shoulders and central midrib.

Length: c. 27 cm

Condition: A nice dagger with fine green patina with pots of red. Slight roughness to the edge.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark.

A nice tanged bronze dagger from the Ancient Near East, Caspian Sea Area, Mid-late Bronze age, 2nd. mill. BC.

Blade with rounded shoulders. Short tang with hole for a rivet to fasten the handle.

Length: c. 24,4 cm

Condition: A nice dagger with fine green patina. Some roughness to the edge.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark.

A nice tanged bronze dagger from the Ancient Near East, Caspian Sea Area, Mid-late Bronze age, 2nd. mill. BC.

Blade with rounded shoulders and a broad central midrib. The tang is c. half the length of the blade, with a bend at the top, for better fastening to the wooden handle.

Length: c. 25,7 cm

Condition: A nice dagger with fine green patina. Some roughness to the edge.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark.

An Islamic seal in a terrific quality and extra large size, probably Persian, c. 17th.-18th. cent. AD or earlier!

Engraved with finely caligraphy, round seal base with a tall domed handle, pierced at the top.

Size: 43 mm. in diameter and 40 mm tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, lovely redish patina.

Ex. Baldwins Auctions 2005...

A massive and superbly preserved bronze mace head decorated with faceted knobs around the swollen head and flanked by grooved bands on a tubular shaft, later bronzeage, ca. 1200-800 BC.

Size: Unusually large for type - 14,5 cm. tall and 7,5-8 cm. wide! Weight: 660 grams.

Condition: Intact and very attractine with a wonderful red and green patina.

Ex. Danish Collection of ancient weapons, bought at the Danish Antiquities market in the 1980-90s.

A choice and X-large tanged bronze lance, Ancient Near East, 1200-800 BC. 'Luristan' Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan bronze age.

A very impressive and decorative bronze lance with a long, bent tang, and a broad, leaf-shaped blade with highly profiled midrib.

A beautiful lance that would have been highly efficient on combat.

Size: c. 40 cm. long.

Condition: Nice Very fine. Beautiful green and red bronze patina. Some roughness to the edges.

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A rare and interesting bronze spear butt for a large lance for hand-to-hand combat, probably Median-Achaemenid, c. 7th.-5th. cent. BC.

The use of this fine spearbutt was known all over the Greco-Persian world in the mid 1st. millenium BC. A spear-butt covers the end of a spear that touches the ground and it would have been used as a weapon also in close combat.

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A nice tanged leaf shaped bronze dagger from the ancient near east, Caspian Sea Area, Mid-late Bronze age, 2nd. mill. BC.

Very broad, leaf-shaped blade with raised central midrib and a long tang - circa half the length of the blade, with a bend at the top, for better fastening to the wooden handle.

Length: c. 20 cm

Condition: Good Very fine, fine green patina.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1990's.

A superb bronze battle adze-axe, South Caspian Sea type (Eastern region), early 2nd. millenium BC.

An elaborate type with a very sharp depiction of a Human Eye on each side of the rilled socket. Long slender adze and axe blades with wider edges. Rare and exceptional so nice!

Size: c. 14 cm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, a gem of an axe with lovely red and green patina.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, aquired in the 1990s.

A large 'Luristani' bronze battle adze, South Caspian Sea type (Eastern region), 2nd. millenium BC.

An elaborate type with a long slender adze blade tappering to a wider bit. Enforced rilled socket with openwork spikes. Terrific lines and symethri and a large size, combined with the fine enamel patina, makes this an exceptional specimen.

Size: c. 16 cm. long and c. 5 cm...

A socketed bronze Javelin, Eastern Caspian Sea region, dating to 1st mill BC.

A fine late socketed Javelin for throwing, Assyrian-Achaemenid period. Attractive javelin with rounded shoulders and a defined central midrib. The socket about two thirds of the total lenght of c. 17 cm.

Condition: Very fine. Beautiful reddish patina.

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1990's.

A fine specimen of the earliest metal daggers known, BMAC / Indus, Chalcolithic period, 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

Interesting and collectable dagger! Leafshaped blade without ribs and a very long tang.

Size: 19,8 cm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, choice green patina and great metal with earthern deposits.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.

Interesting and attractive tanged bronze dagger with large broad blade, North Caspian Sea area, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

The leaf-shaped blade with a broad mid-rib and raised shoulders, short tang.

Size: 29 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine, choice green patina and great metal.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.

Lovely bronze battle axe, Ancient Near East, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

Finely made battle axe with a long enforced and narrow blade with a ridge at the top and an elaborately made socket in a zoomorphic shape with a broad decorated backplate.

Size: 126 mm. long and 94 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Extremely fine, with a lovely deep redish patina with a dusting of green and earthern highlights.

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A superb and large specimen of an Old Elamite / Mespotamian type of bronze battle axe, c. early 2nd. mill. BC.

The axe well-modelled, the blade flares outward in a spectacular curve, its edge delineated as a thinner border...

A very nice tanged bronze dagger, Ancient Near East, dating to early 2nd mill BC.

The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.

Size: 25,5 cm

Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.

Ex Danish Private Collection

An nice lot of three ancient Bronze daggers from Ancient Near East, early types of the 3rd.-early 2nd. mill. BC.

The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC

All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.

Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.

Interesting and very rare Bifacial bronze seal, showing both sides of a Peacock, Bactria / Indian antiquitiy, c. 1st. millenium BC.

Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.

Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.