Catalog: Popular Collectibles: Militaria (144)

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...

A scarce authentic antique 19th century Russian Imperial Army military braid trim lace with general zigzag pattern (Генеральский галун) used for trimming Generals’ Parade uniforms epaulets, shoulder boards, and hatbands. The lace is made of gold-plated real pure silver wire-bullion and is woven around a satin silk thread core.

The listing includes the associated pictures showing both sides of the braid.

CONDITION: Age and usage are showing...

A scarce antique, Islamic, North African, early Berber dagger in the form of a 14th-century European medieval knight's quillon dagger with a crescent pommel.

The sword has a straight, double-edged blade that tapers to a point. The ricasso of the blade is decorated with an engraved ornament. The hilt is made of flattened bronze and has a sturdy cross-guard with a rectangular section. The cross-guard is incised in a geometrical pattern...

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...

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...

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 Turkish Ottoman Kurdish dagger Khanjar – Jambiya.

The Jambiya features a curved, double-edged blade accentuated by a prominent medial ridge that adds to its overall strength and durability. The hilt is crafted from a high-quality horn and boasts a typical design that provides a comfortable grip and excellent control. The blade comes with a scabbard that is made of wood and covered in leather...

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...

A very unusual silver-mounted antique 19th-century Southeast Asian, Burmese, or Thai dagger (Dha, Daab, Dah)...

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 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...

Scarce antique 19th Century variant of the French Model 1866 unmarked Sword Bayonet for the Chassepot rifled musket with X serial number...

Antique 19th Century Victorian era stiletto dagger comprising a beautifully hand-forged, slightly curved tapered steel blade of a diamond section. It has a diamond-shaped steel crossguard, recurved quillons, and an amber-shade celluloid grip. The scabbard is bound in green lacquered leather and mounted with a brass chape.

MEASUREMENTS: Overall length with the scabbard: 24.5 cm (9.65 inches). Overall length without the scabbard: 23 cm (9.06 inches).

CONDITION: The dagger is in good...

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 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 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 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 ...

Scarce, antique (1912-1949) Chinese Republican or Nationalist Kuomintang Army officer sword with a sturdy, slightly curved, single-edged, hand-forged steel blade (with a slightly visible forging pattern under the chrome-plated surface).

The blade is heavy, thick, and sharp.

Plain, handmade solid brass hilt with a small leaf-shaped guard and "S" shaped quillons.

The back strap has a loop on the pommel cap, into which a sword tassel (original, made of black braided fabric) is inserted...

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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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 ...

An exceptional antique 17th century Spanish Toledo dagger - stiletto with a beautifully and extremely well hand-forged, sturdy, tapered steel blade of a diamond section cut with a central fuller, incised on both sides with the maker's mark. The blade is inserted into a turned brass hilt consisting of a baluster grip, a bulbous pommel, and a rectangular quillon block with knobbed terminals.

The wooden scabbard is bound in dark green velvet trimmed at the middle with finely braided gilt br...

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. The dagger is signed illegibly on ricasso by the maker, possibly in the Cyrillic alphabet.

The casting is of very good quality,...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Straight, sturdy, thick, tapering blade, double-edged towards the point, cut on each side with a shallow and slender fuller along the back edge.

The blade is hand-chiseled on each side at the forte with a royal heraldic shield depicting the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth coat of arms; Polish Crowned Eagle, and on the 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...

Antique, early 16th century, Renaissance period time circa 1500-1550 A.D. German or Swiss Landsknecht, halberd with a massive steelhead with a sturdy and long spike blade of diamond-shaped cross-section, A large triangular axe blade with oblique, cutting-edge, and cusped sides, is deeply struck on one side with an armorer's mark in the shape of an eight-pointed star in a shield.

Beak-shaped fluke cusped above and below, and an open socket extended on each side to form two waved or flame-sha...

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 ...

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, 17th-18th century, Indo Persian Islamic Mughal India gold inlaid Indian aristocrat sword, Talwar-Tulwar.

DETAILS: A superb quality sturdy, slightly curved, single-edged blade hand-forged from the characteristic Indian mechanical Damascus steel with excellent quality watered pattern in the form of Mohammed's ladder.

Gold-inlaid steel hilt of Aurangzebi type comprised of a baluster grip, a cross-guard formed with beautifully shaped quillons and langets, a knuckle bow terminating ...

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.

The sword is mounted in solid 22k gold.

A hilt comprises a grip with camel bone grip scales, enclosed by solid gold straps and wrapped in a solid gold wire at the base, rising to a solid gold cup-pommel, jeweled with faceted synthetic ruby stone.

Solid silver crossguard with bud-s...

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 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.

CONDITION: Showing the age and usage, with some wear to the gold gilt. Please see all the 6 photos in the listing since they are part of the description of the object's...