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A humble service khukurī

A 19th-century piece with a simple blade but nicely carved hilt.

€250,-
An eccentric khukurī

With engraved spine and unusual all brass pommel.

€275,-
A Sinhalese knife

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

€300,-
Bhutanese dagger

With narrow blade and all brass mounts.

€300,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Half bone hilted khukurī

With wide blade and a two-tone hilt in cattle bone and wood, capped with brass.

€350,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

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

€400,-
Khukurī in wooden scabbard

The scabbard carved as to closely mimic a tooled leather scabbard.

€450,-
A trousse khukurī

Its scabbard with 12 pockets, with 10 of the items remaining.

€500,-
Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

€500,-
An early sirupātē khukurī

With a heavy blade of elegant slender form. Complete with tools.

€500,-
A "dui chirra" khukuri

Named so after the two ridges that are formed on the bi-fullered blade.

€625,-
A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

€650,-
South Indian katar with Bikaner marks

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

€750,-
Chinese trousse in Mongolian style

With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.

€1200,-
Golden damascened boy's katar

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

€1200,-
A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

€1500,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

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

€1500,-
Chilanum dagger

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

€1600,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

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

€1650,-
A gilt Indian jambiya

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

€1700,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

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

€2200,-
A Deccan chilanum

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

€2300,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.

€2500,-
All wootz kard dagger

With a hidden compartment for a small utility knife.

€2500,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
A katar with true inlay decoration

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

€3200,-
Double-edged Bhutanese dagger

With triple grooves and in heavy silver mountings.

€3200,-
A fine curved Deccan katar

With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.

€3500,-
A fine north Indian dagger

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

€3800,-
A katar from Sindh

With markings suggesting it was a wedding gift, presented in 1832.

€5500,-
Paiwan tjakit with provenance

It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.

€7800,-