Antique, 19th century, Indo-Persian, Northern Indian, Islamic or Sikh shield Dhal of circular convex form with upturned rim, made of hand-hammered solid brass elaborately hand-chiseled with figures of various animals and humans among the profusely chiseled foliate patterns.

The front is set with a crescent moon and four domed bosses, affixed on the reverse by four ring bolts for straps (to hold the shield).

MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 32 cm (12.6 inches)

CONDITION: It is in good cond...

Antique, 18th century, circa 1750 AD, good quality Islamic Indo - Persian all-steel gunpowder priming flask.

The priming flask is made of several separate elements of hand-forged solid steel, a crescent shape swelling steel body made of two parts soldered together and fitted with a pierced steel base and spring cot...

Antique 19th century American frontiers powder horn, made of hollowed–out horn of Bison/Buffalo with black painted oval wood base secured with small domed metal pins, fitted on the center with an iron loop for suspension. The mouth is with its timber stopper. 

CONDITION: Overall in fine condition with smooth toned grey-black surfaces, retains an untouched lovely aged patina. The suspension cord was a later replacement...

Description: The horn body set with large brass mounts well-engraved in characteristic style. Mid 19th century. Stopper lacking. Overall length 33 cm. or 13 inches.

Antique German medieval knight 15th-16th century hand-forged iron horseshoe. MEASUREMENTS: Length: 13.2 cm (5.2 inches) Wide: 11.4 cm (4.49 inches) Weights: 428 grams CONDITION: In very good excavated condition.

This Ethnic Minority Chinese arm guard was formed using elephant hide leather. There is a slit running down the side which permit the guard to expand when being put on or removed. The ethnic minority Chinese were in frequent conflicts and wars with their Han neighbors. This arm guard is from the Yi ethnic minority group. It shows the wear and tear of use...

Spectacular antique 19th century Indo Persian Brass shield possibly, from Gujarat, North-West India. The shield of the circular convex form made of solid brass with applied bosses and a crescent moon. Finely hand repoussé and chiseled in low relief with winged figures on dense and a classical Indian hunting scene (shikargah), depicting lions hunting antelopes and elephants on the floral ground, affixed on the reverse by four ring-bolts for straps (to hold the shield)...

Antique 18th century Islamic Mughal Warrior's Saddle of characteristic form from North-West India or Sindh-Pakistan. Details: The wooden frame cantle extending over to the rear and projecting to the frontal high arch pommel, reinforced with iron mounts and covered with brass sheets, riveted with iron studs and adorned with peacocks and fish.

CONDITION: Sign of usage and wear, iron mounting rusty, split in the wood cantle...

A very good quality,antique late 18th - early 19th century, North African – Maghreb, Algeria – Morocco Islamic Arab gun powder flask with wooden, bag-shaped, plano -convex body, encased entirely in leather with untouched, lightly oxidized, brown-colored surfaces, with two iron rings for suspension, and attached leather straps, fitted with a nicely carved bone pouring-spout and bone nozzle including its original wood plug stopper.

CONDITION: In very good untouched condition, s...

An exceptional antique Turkish Ottoman Balkan gun cartridge pouch Palaska from the beginning of the 19th century, composed of several elements of cast brass soldered together at the edges. The front sides and domed hinged lid are adorned with gilded Ottoman neo-rococo style motifs, and at the back fitted with a belt loop...

A pair of antique Brazilian parade stirrups from the beginning of the 20th Century. The stirrups are made of silver-plated brass and are designed in the Spanish colonial conquistador manner. They are shaped like slippers to protect the rider's feet from injury. Each stirrup is made of separate elements, including soles, and is finely hand-engraved with an ornate floral pattern. A riveted band rises to the sturdy loop for suspension...

Large antique, 18th century, American Revolutionary war period, Pennsylvania Dutch rifleman's powder horn (1770s-1780).

It is made of a hollowed-out brown horn with a domed oval wood base secured with brass tacks and fitted with a brass loop in the center for a suspension cord.

The body is engraved in the middle with the initials J.R.K...

Authentic Antique 19th century American Civil War artifact relic soldier shoe boot heel hand forged Iron plate pierced with four nail holes. According to the previous owner was dug up at Gettysburg, in 1935.

MEASUREMENTS: 6.8 cm x 6.2 cm (2.68 inches x 2.44 inches).

CONDITION: Rusted in excavated condition. Showing its age and wear from usage.

A rare and complete ensemble of antique, late 16th- early 17th Century, European, most likely German, wrought iron horse curb bit with a leather harness. DETAILS: superbly hand-forged, made of iron curb bit mouthpiece bar with articulated, u-shaped port, three rings on one side, and one ring on the other side. Elaborated side cheek-pieces of excellent and precise wrought ironwork in characteristic form, shaped in the middle of the shanks with stylized lion's heads and affixed with two slobbe...

Having a very sweet face, this china head doll dates circa 1860. She is complete with a dress and pantaloons. One foot is missing, but it does not detract from the presentation. Measures 9.5" high.

Antique, Chinese Qing dynasty period (1644 -1912) large bronze processional elaborate polearm halberd head called a jǐ (戟) constructed of several separate bronze elements joined together...

Antique early 19th century or earlier Islamic Turkish Ottoman bronze hawking drum known as Nakare. A squat domed form body with square lug finial pierced with a hole for suspension rope, engraved with decorative concentric bands. It is also engraved with an Arabic script that runs around the outer half of the drum, “Syed Mahmoud, Son of Syed Lesa” and the Hijri date 1232 (circa 1816 AD)...

Antique 18th century America Revolutionary War period gun powder horn, ca. 1770: made of a hollowed-out cow horn, with oval wood base secured with wrought-iron nails and fitted on the center with an iron loop for suspension cord...

Antique 17th -19th century jeweled ceremonial mace Bulava in Imperial Ottoman fashion, Ottoman Empire, or Eastern Europe.

The onion-shaped partially gilt copper head is encased in, chased, and engraved with stylized floral motifs and set with natural turquoise stones of various sizes and shapes.

The shaft comprises upper and lower copper tubes, chased and engraved with stylized floral motifs and set with various sizes and shapes of natural turquoise stones, ensuite to the head of the m...

Antique, late 16th century, European gunpowder flask for matchlock or wheel lock gun in characteristic flattened form.

It is composed of a curved pressed cow horn body, fitted with a brass buttplate cut with scalloped edges and engraved at the bottom with floral scrolls...

Authentic antique 18th century, Revolutionary war period, American rifleman's powder horn, ca. 1770-1780; made of a hollowed-out cow horn, with oval wood base secured with small wood pins ended with carved nozzle wrapped in thread.

CONDITION: In its original condition with a superb mellow old patina, an old crack in the nozzle...

Antique, Chinese, Qing dynasty period (1644 -1912) large bronze processional elaborate polearm with a glaive head made of several separate bronze elements joined together.

A large, handmade, central undulating blade chiseled with a floral design is inserted and secured with solder in an elaborate socket...

Antique, late 18th century, Austrian silver mounted hunting sword with a straight broad tapering blade, double-edged towards the tip, cut on each side with a shallow fuller and a slender fuller, along the back-edge, engraved and gilded with foliage, trophies, and a stag on a blued panel (worn) at the forte. The silver hilt comprises a crossguard made of solid silver with a pair of straight faceted quillons and an oval silver collar. The ebony-wood grip is retained by three rivets with domed silv...

Very good quality antique Indo-Persian Islamic Mughal Indian large dagger Pesh Kabz, North India 18th century.

DETAILS: Superbly hand-forged, sturdy recurved still blade, the upper half with a “T” shape spine with a small notched decoration, the front half cut with two wide fullers with a strengthened central rib, while the rest of the edge is slightly elevated to create a re-enforced point tip designed to penetrate chain mail and other types of protective armor.

The large beak-sh...

Rare antique 17th or early 18th century Islamic Mughal India Indo – Persian sword Indian shamshir.

DETAILS:

The steel hilt of characteristic Indo Persian, Northern Indian shamshir form consists of several hand-forged elements, hand-chiseled on both sides in a low-relief with the classic hunting scene "shikargarh / shikargarh" depicting a lion hunting antelope very realistically.

On the pommel is carved the grotesque face of the Persian mythological demon "Div" (دیو) which sp...

Antique GILE short sword-dagger from the Afar tribe in Ethiopia, dating back to the 19th century. The massive blade is double-edged and curved, resembling an asymmetrical leaf.

The grip is wrapped with silver wire and adorned with iron rosettes. The pommel is bronze with a cap-like protrusion.

The scabbard is made of hardened rawhide with a fur flap. The bottom is wrapped in silver wire and features a shaped brass chape. The sheath retains its belt with a rectangular white metal buckle...

Rare Antique Japanese Edo period samurai kozuka knife handle, made of copper-gold alloy (shakudō). Exterior adorned with a finely executed raised design of a snail cruising on a warabi. Very nice Kozuka with a rare design of a snail.

CONDITION: Age and usage are showing, with its original patina.

Please notice that the pictures in the listing are part of the description of the object's condition.

MEASUREMENTS

Overall length: 9.5 cm (3.74 inches)

Width: 14.79 mm

Weight: ...

Antique 18th-19th-century all-steel Spanish dagger stiletto with the hilt in the form of Islamic, Moorish, Al-Andalus, Nasrid period, sword Jineta.

Dagger consists of a rounded steel hilt with downturned solid steel-shaped quillons in typical Moorish Al-Andalus Nasrid style and a hand-forged double-edged steel blade. With its plane steel scabbard with a shaped shoe.

In the famous Al-Faisal Museum for Arab-Islamic Art, in the Collection of Islamic Art, including arms and armor, in a specia...

Superb quality antique late 18th – early 19th century silver-mounted Turkish Ottoman (possibly Balkan) Islamic sword Shamshir with exceptionally well made curved sturdy single-edged blade, hand-forged of Damascus steel wootz with a fine sham pattern.

The entire mountings, including grip, crossguard, and the scabbard with two large suspension mounts, are made of solid silver. Entirely worked in repousse and are finely hand chased in low relief with scrolling foliage of rococo shells and fl...

An antique 17th-Century European halberd head entirely made of hand-forged steel with a sturdy double-edged central spike and a medial ridge.

A robust crescentic, engraved axe blade is shaped like a bird, while the rear blade is shaped like a perching bird with an engraved body and tail formed into a downturned rear fluke.

An integral tapered octagonal socket is notched with two rings at the top.

CONDITION: Shows age and heavy use, the base of the socket smashed.

Please see al...

Antique 17th - early 18th century German Saxon miner's guild axe of characteristic form. The hand forged iron head with visible lamination of forge layered structure and stamped on each face with the maker marks.

The leading edge drawn up to an acute point capped with a brass finial, pierced with a slipped trefoil and small circles, tubular socket flattened on the inside with chequered rear-hammer peen. Mounted on its distinctive original wooden haft.

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Antique 19th-century fighting knife of the Canary Islands (el cuchillo Canario). The Cuchillo Canario is a traditional knife of the Canary Islands.

In Spanish, these knives are also called "naife," derived from the English word knife. DETAILS: Straight, single-edged, sturdy, hand-forged steel blade with forte covered with alpaca silver. The hilt comprises a round grip and a pommel made of layers in various shades of buffalo horn and brass, mounted in alpaca silver ferrule and collar, and ...

Rare antique museum quality 16th-17th century Turkish Ottoman silver-mounted sword, karabela, saber, kilij made in Ottoman Imperial court workshop and mounted with an older 16th-century blade.

The wooden handle is covered with black leather, and the cup-pommel is mounted at an upward angle, characteristic of 16th-century Ottoman "Kilic" sabers made in the style of the Crimean Tatar sabers called "Ordynka."

The blade from the early 16th century is a single-edged, sturdy, and curved desig...

A very good quality antique, late 19th century North African, Sudanese Islamic, Mahdist warrior, arm dagger with scabbard, from the Mahdist War period (a revolutionary insurrection against the British colonial rule in Sudan, which took place in 1881-1899). Fur / Nuba / Bedja / Barabra / Hadendoa.

It was called the Mahdist War since the Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah (محمد أحمد ابن عبد الله‎) 1848-85 proclaimed himself " Mahdi of Islam" (the "Guided One").

Authentic antique over 100 years old European sword Rapier most likely of the French origin with tapering two –stage steel blade ,the upper portion of flattened – hexagonal section engraved illegibly on the edge of ricasso with brief inscription ,with a short fuller on the respective sides flanked by two full length slender fullers.
Steel hilt comprising cup – guard pierced with a series of slots a pair of straight long quillons swelling towards the notched terminals matching ...

Rare antique medieval sword-saber from the 9th -11 century AD, Turkic Khazar or the al-Arsiya military corps.

The Khazars were nomadic Turkic people best known for converting to Judaism in the 8th and 9th centuries. Their rule lasted at least 250 years, supported militarily by Muslim mercenaries known as al-Arsiyah.

The sword has an exceptionally well-forged, slightly curved blade, with a flat upper spine, the sturdy blade has a false edge (Yelmen) tapering towards the tip.

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