A pair of antique, 18th century,circa 1700-1800 A.D. Islamic Turkish Ottoman Tombak Stirrups, comprising two stirrups, each with the convex and flaring rectangular base with foliate sides and arched cross bar with elliptical suspension loop, the exterior side panels chased and engraved with a floral wreath...

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...

Antique, 19th century, Islamic Caucasian Circassian saddle in Kabardian form, consists of a wooden frame, cantle extending over to the rear and projecting to the frontal high arch pommel, covered overall in leather partly painted in red and black and highlighted in white...

Antique 19th century beautifully executed with superb fine hand-chiseled details, bronze sculpture busts of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, mounted on column base, depicting the Emperor, wearing his favorite uniform of Colonel of Chasseurs Cheval de la Garde Imperial wearing the Order of the Legion of Honour, Iron Crown and the Order of the Legion of Honour Grand Cross Breast Star CONDITION: in very good condition with nice patina, and good signs of age and usage MEASUREMENTS: Height: ...

Excellent quality antique Indonesian Malay from the 15th-18th century, an exquisite Islamic sword-dagger Panjang Kris-Keris from the colonial period belonging to Malayan aristocrats...

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.

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...

5 gilded brass Confederate General Officers and Officers of the General Staff vest buttons. Marked "Wm. Dowler", "Superior Quality". Two piece with domed shell with an eagle surrounded by 14 five-pointed stars. Appraised in 2006 for insurance purposes, see photo. This button is from the original family and is the first time on the market. Guaranteed authentic.

Antique 19th century Islamic Knife “Rencong” traditional weapon of the Acehnese from the northern Sumatran region of Aceh. A sturdy narrow, incurved, single – edged blade, decorated on both sides in ellipse pattern, with a characteristic bent handle with brass ferrule (metok), in its original wooden scabbard...

Antique 19th century American Civil War period US officer's sword blade model 1840 by W.H. Horstmann & Sons Philadelphia. Details: A straight, single-edged, tapered blade cut with a wide, full-length fuller. The outer side is finely engraved with a classical double-handed vase adorned with flowers and leaves with the full logo of renowned sword maker WH Horstmann & Sons Philadelphia...

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...

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 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)...

Antique late 18th-early 19th-century American gilt bronze and blackened desk letter wax seals handle in typical American federal style manner. The handle is composed of solid blackened bronze orb adorned with two American Bald eagles with large spread wings, clutching a bundle of arrows in its left talon, and an olive branch in its right talon, together symbolizing that the United States has "a strong desire for peace, but will always be ready for war...

An ornate antique, 19th century, Balkan - Greek, silver-plated, brass gun powder flask of flattened spherical form made of several separate elements of cast brass fused together.

The front and back are formed of two ornate convex medallions, adorned at the top with two dragon heads with open jaws and topped in the middle by the cherub heads.

The sides are applied with chain suspension mounts in the form of cherub heads.

The bottom sides are applied with double-headed crowned Gree...

Excellent quality, semi-Antique, South American, Argentinian cowboy's Gaucho, knife/dagger "FACON" from, the mid-20th century or earlier, with a very sharp 17.5 cm long steel blade, the cutting edge 5.5 cm from the point is serrated. The blade is finely etched on both sides with gauchos and cattle. The handle is made of natural deer antler with silver alpaca pommel adorned with a finely repousse and engraved with foliage...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 20th century Filipino Sword Philippines "Talibong ". The wooden hilt and scabbard are finely inlaid with mother of pearl; hilt inlaid "PHILIPPINES."

A heavy, razor-sharp Single edge blade flat on one side and beveled on the other side. In its wood scabbard, beautifully hand-carved on the outer side with floral motives.

MEASUREMENTS

Overall length: 67.5 cm (26.57 inches).

Overall length without the scabbard: 62.5 cm (24.61 inches)

CONDITION: Age and usage a...

A very rare historically important documentary bamboo brush or pen pot drawn in ink signed 'Juli (July in Dutch) 1943' in the Tjihapit Internment Camp for Dutch Women and Children in the Japanese Occupied Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

The "cartoon" style drawings are curiously romanticised - I speculate, either to escape from the well documented brutal reality of camp conditions or it may have been produced, for propaganda purposes, under pressure from their concentration camp commanders...

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. Straight, double-edged tapering hand steel blade with ricasso encased in engraved brass collar.

Complete with its tooled leather scabbard with brass mountings.

CONDITION: Excellent example for the period in fine preservation with fine patina.

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 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, 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. The tap fitted with a stylized bird over the nozzle.

Mounted with two pierced suspension loops and adorned with two elaborately shaped and pierced hinged panels.

CONDITI...

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...

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.

Very decorative example of the Victorian representation of the early Renaissance royal shield, profusely embossed in high relief and chiseled with battle scenes in front of the castle, with Renaissance-era soldiers and knights in armor, armed with falchion's swords, rondel daggers, axes, arrow bows, and...

Antique Javanese Indonesian Islamic short sword - dagger Kris – Keris with old 17th–18th Century blade in 19th century mountings. The blade is hand forged with beautiful Pamor Pattern, mounted in the 19th century fittings including hilt (hulu) made of dark brown wood trembalo, in Yogyakarta style with the typical carvings. A Silvered ferrule or mendak well ornamented with granulated pattern.

Warangka: Ladrang cagok type with nice flamed Timoho wood pattern. Wears a brass, half open p...

2nd button now SOLD. Good Triple Cross Collectible, appealing to Militaria, Victorian black bog oak & Button collectors. 1" "Canada Militia" Button showing areas of shiny patina in high relief areas where one would expect. See image #3 for 2nd button - this one SOLD as well.

Very scarce, fine quality, antique 17th century, Crimean Tatar Islamic helmet "Misiurka” from the Crimean Tatar Khanate (Qırım Hanlığı, قرم خانلغى‎ or Qırım Yurtu, قرم يورتى‎) Giray Dynasty period.

This helmet in the form of the Turkish Ottoman Sipahi (سپاهی‎)‎ cavalry helmets with a plain shallow domed skull is formed of three plates; a central steel plate covered on the top with a worn sheet of gilt silver with slightly visible remains of the gold ...

Rare antique, 19th-century sword in the form of the Medieval 15th-century Islamic Spanish, Al-Andalus, Nasrid Dynasty, Hispano-Moresque, Emirate of Granada, Jineta swords.

The bronze hilt is characteristic of Moorish Al-Andalus Nasrid, featuring elaborate patterns and downturned quillons shaped like stylized elephant trunks. On the outer side of the pommel, there is a recessed center with a roseate, and the script is stylized in Arabic calligraphy.

The hilt is mounted with a good q...

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. Nakogo-ana inserted with copper Sekigane.

DIMENSIONS: 77 mm x 72 mm x 6 mm (3.03 inches x 2.83 inches x 0.2362 inches)

WEIGHT: 148 grams

CONDITION: Age and u...

Antique 18th century large silver pendent or order? Extremely well made of fine filigree work in the form of the crowned double headed imperial eagle (possibly Russian or Austrian) with an integral suspension loop, the obverse adorned at the center with a small gold medallion depicting the charging Knight (Saint George?). Reverse side of the eagle is set on the chest with a large dark blue cabochon paste. 

CONDITION: In very good condition with nice old patina. 

MEASUREMENTS:

Two antique Victorian Scottish highlander kilt sporrans made of hand-stitched leather and white and black horsehair.

Black leather cantle with a central brass tree-shaped badge.

One sporran is with black leather back with a suspension loop and a small heart embossed back purse, and the second one is with a green leather back, a suspension loop, and a small back purse embossed with a Scottish thistle.

MEASUREMENTS: Each sporran measures 26 cm (10.2 inches) from top to edge.

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