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A kirach with hunting scenes

Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.

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Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

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Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard

With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.

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A katar with true inlay decoration

Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.

€3200,-
A Punjabi arm guard

Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.

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An unusual ḍhāl

A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

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A south Indian ankus head

South India, made of chiseled iron with bird-bodied yali creatures.

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A parakeet shaped ankus head

Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.

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Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.

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An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
A very good ul-pihiya

A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

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Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard

A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.

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South Indian chiseled iron katar

A nice honest example of an early south Indian katar with great sculptural qualities.

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A northern katar in southern style

Exhibiting southern style beaded edges with northern style construction and gold.

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South Indian spear butt

Made of iron, weighted with two flattened spheres, all with chiseled decoration.

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South Indian tungi axe

A relatively rare variety of an Indian war axe, called tungi.

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South Indian spearhead

From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

€2200,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
A remarkable Khond axe

The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

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Silver overlaid talwar hilt

Never mounted, still with the shop's wooden stopper.

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Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

€3600,-
Khanda with etched blade

A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

€3500,-
Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
South Indian pattissa

An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.

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Nayar ritual sword

An unusually ornate iteration of the design, intended for Hindu ceremonies.

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Vijayanagara katar

A 16th hooded katar with the wide, ribbed blade that is characteristic for this period.

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Talwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh

A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.

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Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

€5200,-
Sosun Pattah

With Persian wootz blade, engraved at forte with floral designs.

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Rajput sosun pattah

With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.

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Heavy Sikh chakram

Traditionally associated with Vishnu, it was an essential piece of equipment for the Sikh nihang.

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Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Bikaner lance head

With square cross-section point and several Bikaner armory markings.

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A Khasi dao

These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

€3200,-
A milam of the Garo

This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.

€1800,-
Punjabi koftgari lockbox

Iron lockbox with key, decorated with the gold koftgari normally seen on arms.

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Malabar coast Moplah sword

A fine and somewhat unusual specimen, with engraved brass mounts and hardwood grip.

€3300,-