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Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard

A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.

€2900,-
A very good ul-pihiya

A Sinhalese knife with lavish silver mounts and overlay.

Reserved
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

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

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

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

€1500,-
Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

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

€1200,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
A fine north Indian dagger

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

€3800,-
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

€2200,-
An unusual ḍhāl

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

€1500,-
A Punjabi arm guard

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

€2100,-
A katar with true inlay decoration

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

€3200,-
Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

€750,-
A kirach with hunting scenes

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

€3200,-
A gilt Indian jambiya

With gilt-copper hilt and scabbard done in beautiful Kutch style repousse work.

€2200,-
Silver plated Tanjore spearhead

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

€4000,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
A fine walking cane from Madras

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

€1600,-
A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

€3500,-
A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

€1500,-
A Deccan chilanum

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

€2300,-
A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€300,-
Large wootz talwar

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

€2600,-
Golden damascened boy's katar

A rare example with pattern welded blade, retaining its original scabbard.

€1500,-
Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.

€6500,-
All wootz kard dagger

With a hidden compartment for a small utility knife.

€2500,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2400,-
A large pihiya kättha

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

€2500,-
Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen, complete with ruby-set scabbard.

Price on request
Chilanum dagger

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

€1500,-
Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.

€2000,-
South Indian katar with Bikaner marks

An interesting South Indian style katar with an imported European blade.

€750,-