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...
Antique, early 18th century, Turkish Ottoman, Islamic gun powder flask with flattened, oval form, wooden body covered in leather, with an impressed design of a palmette within a border of half-circles, with a conical iron nozzle.
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 17.8 cm (7 in). Width: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in).
CONDITION: In its original condition, showing the age and usage, with a dark brown patina...
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...
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...
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...
A Rare pair of antique 18th – 19th century Japanese samurai kozuka knife handles, each made of darkened copper alloy exterior adorned with a hand chiselled in relief and highlighted with gold raised bouquet of flowers in takazogan on a shakudo jitta with a ground of fine nanako, and a silvered kabutogane.
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 condition of the object...
Rare antique 19th century Transcaucasian Russian Kuban or Don Cossack, scabbard, and Belt for Dagger Kindjal. DETAILS: leather-bound wooden scabbard adorned on the center with diamond shape dear bone plaque and mounted with a silvered copper chape and upper mount with the loop for suspension. The scabbard is with its original leather belt with dear bone stripes mounts...
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, 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 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...
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...
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)...
Pair of rare antique late 17th century or early 18th century, Islamic Persian Safavid dynasty saddle stirrups entirely hand forged from a single piece of thick solid iron. Each arched form is adorned with incised decoration rising to a strap loop, at the top flanked by two opposing swan heads with the eyes inlaid with turquoises stones and oval footplate...
Antique circa 1800 AD Mediterranean Spanish dagger stiletto manufactured in Albacete, Spain. Barrel form polished horn grip is inlaid with brass serpentine motifs and flanked by pierced and banded conical brass mounts. Sturdy elongated leaf-shaped blade with medial ridge, thick iron cross guard of elongated diamond shape...
An antique 17th-Century European halberd head entirely made of hand-forged steel with a sturdy double-edged central spike and a medial ridge...
Antique, European gunpowder flask in a characteristic flattened form from the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries for a matchlock or wheel lock gun...
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 ...
An antique 18th – 19th century Indo Persian Islamic shield (Dhal Separ). Made of well hand hammered solid steel of circular convex form, damascened in silver and gold koftgari with four tall pitchers and two swords amongst gold inlaid stars.
An extreme edge reinforced by an applied brass band. The center is decorated by a rosette surrounded by four domed bosses, with bolts on the back for a rope (to hold the shield). The rim of the shield is appliquéd by a broad reinforcing band with a s...
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...
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...
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 -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 sou...
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...
Pair of a rare 9th-10th century antique medieval Khazar stirrups, entirely hand forged from a single piece of thick, solid iron, of arched form, with a convex footpad, and surmounted at the top with a shaped finial pierced with a slot for a strap for hanging.
REFERENCES: A pair of similar Khazar stirrups are in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In addition, the British Museum has a pair of similar Khazar stirrups that are described as dating from th...
Rare antique 18th-19th century Islamic Indo Persian dagger Zirah-bhonk. Details: Finely hand-forged recurved single-edged steel blade with thickened beveled conical point and the sharp edge on the concaved back spine of the blade precisely hand-forged whit its integral beveled ferrule and shaped tang fitted with a pair of shaped stag horn grip-scales The thickened and beveled point of the blade it is used for piercing through the rings of a coat of chain mail.
"Zirah bouk" "Zirah bonk." which...
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. So, in many s...
Antique first half of the 19th century (Bourbon Restoration Period 1814-1830) French heavy cavalry (CUIRASSIER) breastplate armor (cuirass). The breastplate is formed of thick, heavy gauge steel with a projecting medial ridge forward over the down-turned basal flange and angular outward turns at the neck and arms openings.
It is fitted with a pair of brass studs at the front to attach shoulder straps and adorned on the perimeter with six domed brass rivets.
CONDITION: This piece, like ...
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. The upper part below the wooden base is engraved with typical 18th-century Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs – a rosette for good luck and a Pennsylvania...
Rare antique 19th century Turkish Ottoman Empire Balkan Style Islamic Bichaq Dagger knife with curved, single - edge, sturdy hand forged steel blade cut along the spine with slender fuller. Struck on the one face of the blade with a maker's mark in the form of the scimitar sword.
A hilt of unusual and rare form, consisted of a "pistol" grip with carved scales, rising to a bulbous pommel in a characteristic Turkish Ottoman style, with a hole for the suspension tassel, bounded by pairs of sil...
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.
A large, handmade, central leaf shape blade chiseled with a floral design and flanked by two crescentic blades is inserted and secured with solder in an elaborate socket.
The socket comprises two elements: a turned-on lathe baluster shape socket and the cast and hand-chiseled finial in the shape ...
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.
The socket comprises two elements: a turned-on lathe baluster shape socket and the cast and hand-chiseled finial in the shape of a horned Qiulong dragon, connected together and secured...
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!
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, covered overall with hammered and elaborate engraved brass sheets, riveted with iron studs and reinforced with mounts.
CONDITION: Sign of usage and wear, iron mounting rusty. Please look closely at the pictures - they are an important part of our description.
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A rare antique medieval, 9th-10th century, Khazar horse curb bit, entirely hand forged from several elements of solid iron, composed of two bars, called canons, with a loop for reins. Each canon is connected to a curved cheekpiece affixed with two slabs pierced with rectangular holes to mount the harness.
These types of curb bit have a military function, as they would permit near-absolute control on the part of the rider, and horses were an important aspect of Khazar's military power.
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Antique,18th -19th century, Chinese or Vietnamese, large combat polearm, halberd, trident, spear.
The massive trident is made of hand-forged iron with a visible forged structure of layered lamination. It consists of two elements: a sturdy central tapered spear-shaped blade of diamond cross-section and a crescentic cross blade with recurved terminals.
The crescentic cross blade is engraved on both sides with scrolled decorations.
The long, stout tang with a faceted block is fitted to...
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...
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.
The blade is older than the mounting (from 15th–17th Century AD), sturdy, double-edged, straight blade is finely hand-forged with a beautiful and rare Damascus steel pattern - Pamor Ron Pakis (Pattern Feather Fern).
Mounted in the 18th-century fittings, the brown horn hilt (Hulu) is finely hand-carved wit...
Pair of antique, 17th – 18th century, Islamic, Turkish Ottoman stirrups of a characteristic form, beautifully hand made of russet iron with a curved base plate, flanked by shaped sides rising towards the arch and finishing with a loop, the surface enriched with linear ornaments made of copper alloy and adorned with white metal studs.
DIMENSIONS: Approximately
Length: 18.7 cm (7.36 inches)
Width: 13.7cm (5.39 inches)
Height: 18 cm (7.09 inches)
REFERENCES: Similar Otto...
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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Antique first half of the 19th century Massive British Pistol made by Bond in London, converted from flintlock to percussion. The lock clearly marked “Bond”, the round barrel with foliate engraved tang, stamped on the top “London” with two Birmingham proof marks, on the site.
Full walnut stock with bag shape grip applied with oval brass escutcheon, engrave brass trigger guard, ramrod pipe with, brass -tipped wood ramrod.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 32 cm. (12.6 inches).
C...
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).
MEASUREMENTS: Diame...
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...
An exceptional 19th-century Jambiya dagger from the Ottoman period in Southern Iraq, adorned with silver mounts and jewels, originating from the Khanjar of Basra region.
The dagger has a long, curved, double-edged, sturdy steel blade with a medial ridge.
The hilt is made of one piece of horn and has an elegant design. It is carved with a central knob and a typical hooked pommel that is decorated with a silver domed rosette. The base is mounted in a low-grade silver ferrule set with fiv...
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. The brass upper mount is also cut with scalloped edges, pierced with hearts, and engraved with a wavy pattern at the top.
The tapered brass tubular pouring spout is engraved with rings and affixed with an iron turn-off cl...
Antique, French Napoleonic from the beginning of the 19th century, around 1815, circular snuff box made of pressed burr maple and lined with a horn.
The detachable cover is decorated with an equestrian battle scene, depicting Prince Józef Poniatowski riding his horse into Elster River during the Battle of Leipzig.
Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish leader, general, minister of war, and army chief who became Marshal of the French Empire was killed while crossing the river El...
A pair of antique northern German, 1st half of the 17th century Thirty Years' War period military armored stirrups for heavy cavalry (Cuirassiers). Each formed from a hand-forged blackened iron plate, reinforced at the front and the sides and the bottom of the wooden step plates with iron straps mounted in a heavy iron band with a suspension -loop, the interior is fitted with leather lining. Such armored stirrups supported and gave the horsemen stability in amour and well protected the feet in b...
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. On one side of the saddle is punched N6 and also some inscription.
The Circassian saddle is unique in its construction and very light compared to the other saddles by its construction and is giving the rider comfort and st...
Description: A very well made example of typical form, the pommel and scabbard of figured hardwood, the mounts of silver and parcel gilt. The
handforged blade of straight, double-edged type with central grooves, highly polished. Late 19th century. Overall length 32.5 cm. and in great
condition.
A very unusual silver-mounted antique 19th-century Southeast Asian, Burmese, or Thai dagger (Dha, Daab, Dah).
The scarce type blade is hand-forged from Damascus steel with an excellent quality watered pattern.
The blade is sturdy, tapered, and double-edged, with a waving (flamboyant) form reminiscent of the Indonesian keris–kris.
The hilt of a rare form features an ornate solid silver guard engraved with intricate scrolls and a three-stage tubular grip made of solid silver with engra...
A very good quality antique Islamic large Indo-Persian dagger pesh-kabz from the 18th century, Mughal India, North India, Karud.
The steel blade is single-edged, straight, sturdy, and of "T" shape cross-section. It gradually tapers from the hilt to the point and has an engraved wide rib at the back with scrolls.
The elaborate design of arabesques is chiseled on both sides of the forte within the shaped panel. The hilt is sturdy and is made up of two bone grip scales, which are secured ...
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).
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).
It is possible that the inscription was engraved for the new owner, and the drum is much older.
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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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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:
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.
REFERENCES:
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Rare, antique, 19th century, Central Asian Islamic Turkoman Tekke horse jewellery, silver-mounted leather, horse trapping Neckband. The upper surface decorated and constructed of 6 rows of small continuous interlocking silver plaques riveted to the leather, enclosed by silver bars at the ends. The central Shaped shield enriched with large oval carnelians stone, extremely well made by Turkmen silversmith.
This Type of horse jewelry was very expensive and exclusively aff...
