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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 South Indian khanjarli

A fine, early example with silver-plated details.

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A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

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An early "piha-kaetta"

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

€1500,-
Early Indian fighting sword

With a recurved blade and elaborate bronze hilt decorated with chakras.

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Bhutanese sword in tribal scabbard

With early pierced iron pommel and a style of scabbard worn in Arunachal Pradesh.

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A fine walking cane from Madras

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

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A fine, heavy piha kaetta

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

€1650,-
Katar with complex ribbed blade

A substantial example, of elegant form, with a complex grooved blade.

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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,-
Vijayanagara katar

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

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Vijayanagara "pata"

A very early example of the type, with locally made rapier style blade.

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A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade

With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.

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A large and very good khanjarli

With lunette pommel of ivory plates.

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Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.

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An Indian matchlock musket

A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.

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A Sinhalese kasthāné

An impressively large kasthāné, dating from the 18th century.

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A fine Indian toradar with inlaid stock

General introduction A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inl

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A Punjabi arm guard

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

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Deccan katar with Bikaner marks

With a hilt that is of typical southern form, with a cupped base and langets.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

€2200,-
A remarkable Khond axe

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

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€2300,-
A very good ul-pihiya

A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

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Large spearhead from South India

An unusual type with a broad leaf-shaped head with deep sunken panels.

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Sinhalese export sword guard

A large circular Asian export sword guard with elaborate decor carved in relief on both sides.

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A large pihiya kättha

A massive example weighing just over 800 grams. With scabbard.

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South Indian loop hilted dagger

Introduction Indian loop hilted dagger are generally called bichuwa (बिछुवा )

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Indian pata with Solingen blade

With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.

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A fine bichuwa with gold decor

A north Indian bichuwa dagger with recurved blade and richly decorated hilt.

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Punjabi koftgari lockbox

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

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A Sinhalese spear

A nice example of a rare type of weapon from the Sinhalese arsenal.

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Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.

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A Deccan chilanum

With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.

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Large wootz talwar

The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.

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Rajput sosun pattah

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

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Talwar hilted shamshir

With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.

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Sinhalese ul-pihiya

A rare example retaining its original silver covered scabbard.

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Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard

A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.

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Bikaner elephant katar

Possibly made in Gujarat and eventually incorporated in the Bikaner armory

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Chiseled iron bichuwa

The handle covered with gold damascening.

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Chiseled iron Hindu basket hilt

With blackened iron panels with decorative borders carved in relief.

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Heavy wootz hilted talwar

Introduction The talwar or talvār (Hindi) is

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South Indian katar with curved blade

A very crisp and complete example of its type.

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Solingen blade with pata hilt

Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

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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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A katar with true inlay decoration

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

€3200,-
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Silver plated Tanjore spearhead

A large and heavy example with chiseled decor and silver overlaid base.

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Unusual khanjarli

With straight blade and two opposing Yali chiseled out of the forte of the blade.

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