All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1480208 (stock #EA294)
Antique American Civil War period sword bayonet, British pattern 1856, intended for use with both the Enfield P-1853 Percussion 577 caliber short rifle and the artillery carbine – musket. This saber bayonet is made by the well-known German sword maker KIRSCHBAUM of Solingen for export to the USA during the Civil War for both Confederate and Union...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1469816 (stock #E986)
Scarce antique 19th Century variant of the French Model 1866 unmarked Sword Bayonet for the Chassepot rifled musket with X serial number. The typical Yatagan shape blade with a wide, flat spine and broad single fuller. The spine and ricasso of the blade are unmarked. Ribbed brass grip, the mortice slot bears inside number “4”. steel crossguard with down turned guillion and muzzle ring is stamped with serial marks “X 70652”...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1470008 (stock #ES1138)
A scarce antique, Islamic, North African, early Berber dagger in the form of a 14th-century European medieval knight's quillon dagger with a crescent pommel.

The sword has a straight, double-edged blade that tapers to a point. The ricasso of the blade is decorated with an engraved ornament. The hilt is made of flattened bronze and has a sturdy cross-guard with a rectangular section. The cross-guard is incised in a geometrical pattern...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1467104 (stock #E951)
Good quality antique, 19th century, from the Victorian period, electrotype plated silver on copper, large shield in the style of the Italian Renaissance parade armor from the 16th century...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1467212 (stock #E972)
Antique 17th Century Polish horsemen battle axe “Czekan” It consists of a very well hand-forged steel head with a flaring downward-curving axe blade, a central loop-shaped block with slender vertical grooves, the rear with a projecting shaped fluke with a square hammer, mounted on its original handcrafted wooden haft...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1469979 (stock #ES114)
Antique 19th century Chinese or Vietnamese polearm trident halberd, spear, of a rare pattern. The head is hand-forged from a single piece of steel composed three blades; each blade is single-edged, tapering like a dagger's edge, and is triangular in cross-section.

The blades appear from a short tang, split into three branches, forming a trident blade. The branches are decorated with punched designs.

These types of Tridents of identical form were used in China and Vietnam...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1480105 (stock #E1008)
Antique 16th-century European large boar spear-pike head, exceptionally well made of hand-forged steel, with a broad leaf-shaped blade with a strongly pronounced medial ridge on each side, extending down a tapered tubular socket and struck with the maker's mark on one side and pierced with two holes for the pins to be fastened to the wooden pole.

The term "boar spear" denotes a polearm with a wide, leaf-shaped blade with a prominent ridge running down the center...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1350712
A very rare large antique TIBETAN SWORD with silver, iron and shagreen skin on the sheath. Intricately and beautifully decorated with a Taotie Mask, Deer, Tigers, a Phoenix and a Dragon on one side, while the other has detailed scrolling, foliage and a copper buckle for attaching. Size: L. 19.5", blade alone 14" (L. 49.5 cm., blade alone 36 cm.). RARE Collector's item!
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1439320 (stock #ES964)
Rare antique 18th-19th century Islamic Indo Persian dagger Zirah-bhonk...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Cultural : Baltic : Pre 1900 item #1471390
Excellent good size 19th century true Baltic amber whole uncut nugget of superb butterscotch color. Beautiful warm honey color typical of amber that was exposed to light for many years after being taken out of the sea, Rich surface texture, very pleasant to hold. Length 3 3/4 inches (9.5 cm), width 2 1/4 inches, weight 58 grams
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1439372 (stock #ES968)
Antique, Edo period Japanese large sword guard Tsuba for samurai sword Katana Signed by the Master Masatoshi.

DETAILS: A good fine iron lobed shape plate “Mokko Gata,” well hand-forged and pierced with Kozuka Hitsu-ana and Kogai hitsu-ana, decorated on two sides with finely cut linear pattern and crescent moon...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Decorations : Holiday : Pre 1900 item #25487
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$100.00
Full sheet of unusually large vintage German diecut Santas carrying toys. Two of the Santas wear the harder to find blue robe. The colors are gorgeous and this sheet would look terrific framed. Each Santa Claus measures 9-1/4" tall--an unusually large size.

The assortment of toys is wonderful--nutcrackers, racecars, dice, dolls, airplanes, books and toy horses.

The tabs are marked "Printed In Germany", "PBZ" and "1211". The printer was the Paul B...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1469993 (stock #ES1149)
Antique 19th-century Mongolian dagger-knife with a slightly curved single-edged–fullered, sturdy blade.

The slender hilt consists of ox-horn grip scales enclosed by brass straps, a brass pommel, ferrule, and rosettes. The pommel is affixed with an iron ring for suspension...

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1900 item #725369 (stock #5614)
An ornate, large 19th century carved bone fan, with fine lace-trimmed silk and metal sequins. This 14" fan extends to 27" across; it features finely carved decorative bone end panels, complex and well-executed silk lace on the upper edge, and sewn gold-coloured spangles or sequins in three different shapes. This item is in excellent original condition with no chips, cracks, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Nostalgia : Fashion : Accessories : Pre 1900 item #722234 (stock #01165)
An attractive Victorian 12-3/4" long painted silk and bone fan with flowers. This unsigned fan is attractively painted on one side with pink flowers and leaves, and the bone supports are unadorned. This item is in very good original condition with no chips, cracks, major tears or stains, losses, damage or repairs other than some minor fraying to the silk at the ends...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Decorations : Holiday : Pre 1900 item #28672
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$225.00
Rare tin cookie cutter in the form of a Christmas Belsnickle (AKA Father Christmas, Santa Claus). The cutter is stamped "555" on the back between the airholes.

Origin: American, circa 1890s. Condition: excellent, a small bit of rust. Size: 9-5/8" x 3-1/2".

All Items : Popular Collectibles : Decorations : Holiday : Pre 1900 item #1455729
A steel cowbell hand-painted on one side with a detailed rendering of a living room with stockings hung above a roaring fireplace, a grandfather clock showing midnight, and a sleeping cat (or dog). “’Twas the night before Christmas.” the opening line of Clement Moore’s 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is painted at the top. One narrow side of the bell is painted, “Happy New Year,” and the other with “The year is going, let him go,” a line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 18...
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Militaria : Edged Weapons : Pre 1900 item #1479597 (stock #E1001)
This is a small antique sword from 18th-century England. It has a thrusting tapering blade that is hollow and triangular in section. The hilt is made of bright steel and is set with multi-faceted studs that resemble rose-cut diamonds. The hilt comprises an oval shell guard, a recurved cross guard, an urn-shaped pommel with a button, and a faceted swelling grip.

The urn-shaped pommel and the crossguard finial affix with the loops for suspension of the knuckle chain.

The decoration on thi...