Catalog: Popular Collectibles (156)

Antique early 20th century authentic Native American Plains Indian handmade, female doll. Constructed of buckskin, beads, and natural human hair. This doll is wearing a hand sewn traditional period dress and moccasins.

She is elaborately dressed in the hand sewn fringed buckskin costume, finely beaded on the front and the back with geometric designs with large finely beaded necklace on her chest. She is wearing Buckskin leggings, and beaded moccasins...

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, dated 1834, finely hand-painted the Greek Orthodox Icon of Saints Constantine and Helen (Konstantinos and Eleni), with True Cross in the early 19th century.

Tempera on wood panel...

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: ...

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...

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...

SOLD A very rare, museum-quality antique medieval pair of Avar iron stirrups from the 6th-7th centuries. Each with an arched crossbar, apple-shaped stirrups surmounted at the top with an elongated suspension loop pierced with a slot to receive a suspension strap. The concave footpad is ribbed at the bottom and pierced with triangular and circular holes for drainage...

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...

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...

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...

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...

19th century Eastern European Jewish miniature silver gilt filigree Besamim spice box shaped like a cooking stove with a removable lid cauldron and fan.

Unmarked like most of the miniature filigree objects...

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 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...

Antique 18th Century Indo-Persian, Islamic silver inlaid mace, a skillfully hand forged entirely of steel mace with large pear-shaped head surmounted by a raised bud finial, facet octagonal in cross section haft enclosed by a rounded cusp...

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 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...

Original Soviet Warsaw Pact Army Moisin Nagant M1937 MOSIN RIFLE. leather Patronashi amo pouch. Pouch is made of thick genuine leather. Points on bottom. Inside the lid there is ink stamp of the leather factory's quality control. The back impressed with 76.

MEASUREMENTS: Height (points included): 10 cm (3.94 inches) Width: 17 cm (6.69 inches)

Very good a condition! Brown leather construction in good used condition. leather is flexible and strong with two metal closure buttons and a...

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, 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. Rim: 6 mm (2.83 inches x 2.72 inches Rim: 1/4 Inch)

WEIGHT: 177 grams (6.243 oz)

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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 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. Please look closely at the pictures - they are an important part o...

Antique, Second Half of the 16th Century, circa 1570 A.D. from Renaissance period time, European halberd with a large steelhead with a sturdy and long spike of diamond-shaped cross-section, a robust crescentic axe-blade pierced by two groups of three dots, a downturned rear-fluke pierced with a group of five dots. There are worn-out marks on the middle rib of the halberd's head, which are probably the remains of the armor's mark (please see the seventh photo in the listing).

Open socket ext...

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...

20th century British Scots Guards officer's gold and crimson dress waist state sash belt. Gold metallic bullion wire and crimson cotton woven with a finely striped pattern. Flattened bow type buckle section with two vertical hanging sections. The main part of belt backed with red morocco leather and with faded gold maker's name - can just read HOBSON &…. The belt is fastened with a flattened brass hook joining a brass staple at the other end. Rear fitted with two adjustment buckles to vary the...

Antique Pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican, Aztec stone dagger with a massive, pointed, cone-shaped blade, 15th-16th century AD.

The blade is extended to a finely carved hilt, which depicts the Mesoamerican deity "Quetzalcoatl" in the form of a feathered serpent seated on a throne. This dagger was primarily designed for stabbing, and its massive blade makes it a deadly weapon.

Stone blades of various types and sizes, including projectile points, hand axes, scrapers, chisels, and other tool...

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. REFERENCES: A similar Flask is published in the Sotheby’s catalog: The Turkish Sale London, 17 October, 199...

This is an authentic antique Abyssinian Ethiopian Coptic Orthodox brass Blessing Cross from the 19th century. The cross is intricately cast in two pieces and attached together. It features an oval central panel that is pierced and engraved in openwork, displaying a complex pattern with two crosses surrounded by an aureole. The long handle, which is square in section, is adorned with an elaborate finial composed of two small crosses.

A blessing cross is a hand cross held by a priest or bi...

A pair of vintage 20th century Native North American Indian handmade beaded moccasins, boots. Details: They are skillfully crafted using a combination of white and navy-blue blanket wool, adorned with intricate glass beadwork, natural fur trim, tanned hide, and a cotton lining. The moccasins feature exquisite floral motifs created with finely beaded multicolored seed glass beads, showcasing remarkable attention to detail. The addition of fur trim and woolen tassels adds a touch of elegance. T...

This is a great example of the British-Australian sword bayonet (Mark I), which was designed to be used with the short magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) rifle. The Pattern 1907 bayonet was used by the British and Commonwealth forces during the First and Second World Wars.

This particular bayonet was manufactured in Australia during WWII for the No.1 MkIII Enfield rifle. It is commonly known as the SHT.LE, SMLE, S.M.L.E., "Smelly" etc.

NOTE: British and American forces retained longer bayo...

Antique 19th century Native North American Plains Indians, (possibly Siouk) stone Peace Pipe, and beaded buckskin pipe bag.

Hand carved in two sections and bonded together L-shaped steatite stone bowl with slight flare to prow, adorned with lead inlayed ring. The carved pipe stem of natural wood carved in relief with two elliptical loops design displaying a lovely glossy patina.

CONDITION: in overall good condition showing the age and usage with a beautiful old patina from sweat and gr...

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 late 19th -early 20th century Masonic gilt copper Royal Arch Masonic Medal Companion breast jewel, worn by the Royal Arch's companions, a degree of Freemasonry. Complete with white ribbon, button flanked by two bars, and stick pin at the back for wearing with its fine original leather case wallet fitted with velvet liner. Entirely handmade, finely cut, pierced and engraved gilt metal, medal in the form of the Seal of Solomon, being a six-pointed double triangle star, within a ring ...

Antique Art Deco solid bronze relief portrait plaque of the Polish Marshal Jozef Pilsudski “attributed to” J. AUMILLER, cast in high relief, with stunning finely hand-chiseled details. Mounted on the wooden board adorned in the corners with four bronze polish military officer’s stars and housed in a rectangular wood frame with a thin brass inner frame with beaded design molding and decked on the exterior with four bronze brackets. Józef (Joseph) Aumiller (1892-1963), who was an artist, s...

A Semi-antique, heavy silver inlaid, copper “Cairoware” presentation, commemorative plate, commemorating The Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps (RCAPC) service in Egypt, during the Suez Crisis.

The center inlaid in heavy silver with the badge of the Royal Canadian Army Pay Corps is officially described as follows:

Within the Garter and motto "HONI. SOUT. QUI. MAL. Y. PENSE", a beaver resting on a log; below the garter and supported by a spray of six maple leaves, a scroll inscrib...

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...