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Caucasian qadara logo

Transcaucasian kindjal

With a rare single-edged blade with tight fullering.
William Fraser

William Fraser

A British civil servant who is famous for recruiting Ghurkas and the compilation of the Fraser album.
Caucasian flintlock pistol logo

Caucasian silver niello miquelet pistol

Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.
Caucasian shashka dated 1919

Dagestani shashka dated 1912

A nice Caucasian shashka from Dagestan with a Russian imperial monogram.
Keris panjang with European blade logo

European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.
German flintlock with Ottoman barrel

Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.
Parrying dagger logo

16th century left-hand dagger

Nice European parrying dagger, possibly German or Swiss.
Pata with Solingen blade

Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.
The dha of O.T. Burne

The O.T. Burne dha

With silver overlaid blade and silver mounts worked in repousse. With some of Burne's personal items.
Kutch pattern welded Shamshir made for Benson

Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
Unusual Chinese saber with figure head pommel logo

Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.
Firangi logo

Firaṅgī (फिरंगी)

Literally "foreigner", Hindi term for a European sword mounted in Indian hilt.
Palembang sword with European blade logo

A Palembang sword with British blade

With finely carved horn hilt, silver mounts and reshaped European blade.
Delacour logo

Francis Delacour of Paris

Cutler and sword maker in Paris, supplier of imperial swords.
Pipe-back saber logo

Pipe-back saber

A distinctive type of European military saber, used from the early 19th to early 20th century.
Siamese Mamluk saber logo

French sword for the King of Siam

With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.
Ramree Veteran khukurī logo

Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.
South Indian walking stick with silver knob

A fine walking cane from Madras

Made of a beautiful piece of black zitan hardwood, carved in a spiral, topped with a silver knob.
Sindh flintlock logo

A fine Sindh flintlock

A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with almost all the gold remaining.
A Balkan boyliya paragun logo

A fine "boyliya" paragun

One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
Dutch chiseled iron smallsword logo

Dutch chiseled iron smallsword

Part of a group of rare late 17th century examples, representing the finest of its kind.
Dzeferdar logo

Jeferdar

The alternative spelling of the Džeferdar, a type of miquelet gun from Montenegro.
Dzeferdar logo

Džeferdar

A type of gun from Montenegro with rich mother-of-pearl inlays.
Miquelet lock

Mediterranean lock

An alternative name for the miquelet lock
Miquelet lock

Miquelet

Collector's jargon for a type of lock for a firearm
Dzeferdar miquelet

Dzeferdar miquelet rifle

With Ottoman twisted "damascus" barrel and fine mother-of-pearl inlaid stock.
Manceaux

Manceaux à Paris

A notable French arms manufacturer who also made fine presentation weapons in Asian styles.
Ottoman court dagger with renaissance style decor logo

Ottoman style dagger

Fine and unusual, with Italian renaissance style decoration.
Ottoman knife by Manceaux, Paris

Ottoman knife by Manceaux, Paris

Of superior quality manufacture, combining a mix of European and Ottoman taste.
Ottoman barreled gun

English rifle with Ottoman barrel

An English rifle that was built around an 18th-century Ottoman barrel of the finest quality.
Major surgery on an old Teutonic war-horse logo

Major surgery on an old Teutonic war-horse

(This is an old article so the images are fairly low resolution)