Antique American Civil War "Staff & Field" officers’ sword with the owner's name "W. Taylor." engraved on the scabbard locket.

This sword pattern, known as the 1850 US Foot Staff & Field Officers Sword, was designed on the French Model 1845 Infantry Officer's Sword and was adopted by the US Army in 1850 as the standard sword for all staff officers and the field officers, infantry, artillery, and riflemen...

Antique 18th-century circa 1730 A.D. Polish hunting sword (Cuttoe - Hanger) Blade superbly, engraved with the Crowned Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth coat of arms...

Greek Cretan dagger Bichaq mounted in sterling silver and made in the 20th century.

DETAILS: It is made in the characteristic Turkish Ottoman Balkan "Bichaq" form. Sterling silver straps enclose the bone hilt and ferrule, which are worked in low-relief repousse with foliage and Greek inscription...

A stunning and rare KHANJAR PERSIAN DAGGER, double-edged sharp curved blade of watered WOOTZ STEEL with medial ridge and keened point. The forte is chiseled in low relief on each side. The gilded steel hilt and scabbard are masterfully engraved with foliage and cartouches depicting human figures and various animals. Very rare and in good overall condition. Size: L. 16", blade 10.5" (L. 41.5 cm., blade 27 cm.). Weight: 419 gr. A fine Collector's piece!

Antique late 19th—early 20th century Indonesian Malaysian Malay short sword—dagger, Kris—Keris, with a robust, extremely well-made serpentine-shaped wilah (blade) with 9 luk (waves). The blade is exquisitely crafted from hand-forged iron in various layers with a very unusual pattern. It is also decorated on both sides with a finely hand-carved and inlaid yellow metal crowned Naga (mythological serpent)...

Antique circa 1900 A.D. Islamic dagger of the lords of the desert, known as Tuareg, Telek or Gozma.

Details: a leather-wrapped hilt in a distinctive form, comprising a slim grip with engraved flat brass pommel adorned with silver plaque...

Antique 19th century Cretan Greek dagger Bichaq in the Islamic Turkish Ottoman form...

Antique 19th century Victorian period time European stiletto dagger in Neo-Renaissance style. The stiletto consists of an elaborated cast and chiseled, silver-plated copper hilt in Neo-Renaissance style with a flattened grip, short quillons, and a pronounced pommel.

The sturdy, tapered, double-edged steel blade of a diamond cross-section has a very sharp point...

Antique, 18th century, Mughal Indo Persian - Sind Matchlock gun Jezail. Details; damascus steel barrel showing strongly banded pattern, muzzle fixed to mounting bayonet, curved wood full stock with simple iron plates on each side.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 141cm (55 ½ inches).
REFERENCES: “Firearms Of The Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait” by Robert Elgood...

A scarce antique American, late 19th century, a heavy short sword made especially for the September 1892 production of '1492' that opened the Park Theatre in Boston, presented by the company 'Rice's Surprise Party.' Robert Barnet, 'The Extravaganza King', held productions from 1891-1906 at various venues in Boston, always starring the all-male company in the manner of Harvard's Hasty Pudding, in this, he starred himself as Queen Isabella, to the delight of the public.

Barnet raised funds for...

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...

Antique 16th century Central European large sturdy very well hand forged steel battle axe head with very sharp, oblique cutting edge, large oval eye, and flat rectangular poll. Struck on one side with a maker's mark and adorned with engraved pattern and stamped with circular eyes.

CONDITION: In its original condition, age and usage are showing, slightly pitted.

MEASUREMENTS: Height: 22 cm (8.66 inches). Width: 20 cm (7.87 inches).

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...

Antique, Japanese large sword guard Tsuba for samurai sword Katana Signed Nobuie (Nobu Iye)

DETAILS: A well hand forged very masculine tsuba made of thick and heavy large iron “Kaku Gata” plate with unregular raised rim (Mimi) hammered with wavy outline. Surface pierced with Kozuka and Kogai hitsu-ana Kogai and plugged with blackened copper pegs.

DIMENSIONS: 72 mm x 69 mm...

A very rare and important antique, circa 1850 -1920 AD, museum-quality Islamic Middle Eastern - Arabian, Arab sword "Saif" in the form of the Indo-Persian saber shamshir in a characteristic Arab style...

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...

Antique 19th century Chinese or Vietnamese polearm trident halberd, spear, of a rare pattern...

Antique Islamic, Yemeni, Arab dagger, Khanjar Jambiya with a belt, 19th century, Yemen.

A tribal pattern is engraved on a shaped hilt made of two sheets of low-grade silver alloy, which are bounded in the middle by an embossed brass strap.

The outer side and the pommel are ornamented with embossed brass rosettes, and the base is mounted in the embossed iron ferrule.

Jambiya is mounted with a broad, slightly curved, double-edged blade formed with a pronounced medial ridge on each ...

Antique French military sword "Eppe" 1872 Pattern for the officers of the Third Republic. Solid brass regulation hilt with D" shaped knucklebow, double clamshell hand guard, and thickened edge adorned at the front with wreath formed of oak and laurel leaves with a ribbon. Folding back guard, folded, and released by pressing a sprung steel ball.

The grip is made of wood and bound with twisted copper wire. It has brass ferrules and a bulbous pommel with a turned finial.

Sturdy double edg...

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.

In the 17th century, the sharp cutting edges of axes were grounded as soldiers retired from military service and began using the Czekan as a walking cane, a sign of a ...

A rare antique, 18th century Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack gun powder flask with a heart-shaped body carved from hardwood.

The outer face is decorated with a carved traditional Ukrainian geometric pattern of raised ribs, and the inner face is with an iron loop for suspension.

REFERENCES:

Three very similar powder flasks are published in a book from Ukrainian state museums: "Ukrainian Cossack State" by Volodymyr Nedyak, Page: 239.

Also, a similar Ukrainian Cossack ...

A superb quality antique 19th century Spanish hunting plug bayonet with sturdy, tapering, double-edged blade of a waving (flamboyant) form, with a finely engraved band of foliage on each side.

A turned hardwood grip of a tapering circular section surmounted by a brass pommel, brass ferrule below turned swelling handle at the base and a horizontal brass crossguard with elaborate quillons. This plug bayonet was designed and used for hunting wild boars and bears.

CONDITION: In good co...

Antique 19th century American Confederate large fighting knife - dagger from Civil War Era (1861–65 A.D.) handmade by a Confederate blacksmith with a massive, hand-forged, tapered, sturdy double-edged steel blade with visible forging and finishing marks.

The hilt consists of an S-shaped iron crossguard with flattened, twisted terminals, a shaped bone grip with an iron ferrule, and a pommel cup.

CONDITION: The crossguard, the ferrule, and the pommel cup have a matching patina. The b...

Antique 16th century European large boar spear - pike head, extremely 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 boar spear name referred to a polearm with a broad leaf-shaped blade with a strongly pronounced medial ridge. This type of spear was used from t...

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 ...

Authentic Ancient Luristan bronze Sword circa 1200 -1000 BC. A flanged hilt and blade finely cast in one piece. A very fine example of an authentic Ancient Luristan bronze dagger, of elegant form, from the Bronze Age circa 1200 -1000 BC. A tapering double-edged blade, a shaped hilt with an elliptical pommel, hollowed on each face for a pair of grip-scales. In the period when the sword was used, the handle would have had a bone or wooden insert, but these never survive three thousand years of t...

Antique 18th -19th century, Chinese or Vietnamese, large combat polearm partisan in the form of the spear or lance.

A leaf-shaped blade made of hand-forged iron with a visible forge layered lamination structure, engraved on both sides with scrolled decorations. The long stout tang with a faceted block is fitted into its original red lacquered bamboo pole (shortened) with a large, ribbed bronze ferrule.

These types of spears of identical forms were used in China and Vietnam. So, in many ...

Antique WWI Imperial German – Prussian artillery sword – saber M.1848 - M.1873- M1896 (Preußen Garde-Artillerie-Säbel für Mannschaften) so-called "Blüchersäbel." This name refers to the legendary saber of the Prussian cavalry M.1811 and received the unofficial name "Bluchersabel" from the famous Prussian marshal Blucher. He earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

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Exquisite gold damascened antique, 18th-19th century, Indo - Persian Islamic axe, entirely made of well hand-forged steel, including a large crescent-shaped blade, decorated on each side with hand-chiseled cartouches with Arabic "nasta'liq"calligraphy among scrolled arabesques and highlighted by a gold koftgari inlay including the edges of the blade.

The protruding rear-hammer and central block are also chiseled with calligraphic scripts and highlighted in gold koftgari (worn) and surmount...

A rare authentic antique, dating from the late 16th to the first half of the 17th century, Polish sword Batorowka made in the style of a Hungarian sword from the end of the 16th century. Swords of this type are called "Batorowka" in Poland because the first sabers of this style were intro-duced in Poland via Hungary during the reign of Stephen Bathory, the prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586).

Polish hussars used this type of saber ...

SOLD Antique late 19th century Imperial German - the Kingdom of Württemberg, shoulder epaulet for a lieutenant in the field artillery regiment King Karl (1st Württembergisches) No. 13, location Ulm / Stuttgart. Copper half-moon, with elaborate copper "13" numerals, with woven metallic bullion edge "tape", padded red cloth base, and underside with stitched buttonhole.

CONDITION: Showing age and usage, upper side fabric stained, with wear, metal parts with old patina, underside cloth stain...

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!

Pair of antique 18-19th century Islamic Ottoman North Africa, Arab iron prick spurs, entirely formed of hand forged iron with U-shaped heel bands with slotted rectangular terminals formed with a tall rectangular loop in the center, moulded necks and characteristically long spikes, surface inlaid with silver koftgari interlaced scrolling foliage.

Approximate measurements: Overall length: 29.5 cm (11.61 inches) and the second spur measure 28 cm (11.02 inches).

CONDITION: Showing age an...

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. This type of spear was com...

Antique,18th century, Indo Persian Islamic Indian Mughal sword with pistol shape steel hilt, silver inlaid with foliage and chevrons. With sturdy serpentine-shaped steel blade, decorated on both sides of the blade with silver inlaid koftgari (worn out).

REFERENCE: Islamic swords with similar types of the serpentine blades are in the Imperial collection in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Please see Islamic swords and swordsmiths by Unsal Yucel.

CONDITION: Showing age a...

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...