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Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Kutch shamshir for Benson

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

€5200,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Khanda with etched blade

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

€3500,-
A fine north Indian dagger

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

€3600,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

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

€400,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

€2200,-
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,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
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 gilt Indian jambiya

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

€1500,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

€3500,-
A Sinhalese knife

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

€300,-
Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

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

€6500,-
Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen with VOC blade and 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".

€2300,-
South Indian katar with Bikaner marks

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

€750,-