Antique Arms & Armour

Large Iron Tsuba, chiselled with a dragon in clouds above waves in low relief, a few tiny gold inlaid details, signed; and another sukashi tsuba, ...

Japanese Short Sword Wakizashi, blade unsigned with 3 peg holes, iron sukashi tsuba pierced with flowering prunus blossom, tape bound same tsuka, ...

Japanese WW2 Army Officer’s Sword Katana, unsigned earlier blade with bold wavy hamon and 4 large hagiri, single peg hole, in Shin gunto mounts wi...

Japanese WW2 Army Officer’s Sword Katana, blade 68.3cms, unsigned with 2 peg holes, oil tempered blade with wavy hamon and kizu, in shin gunto mou...

Japanese Carved Bone Sword Katana, untampered blade, hilt and scabbard made from bone sections each nicely carved in relief with assorted samurai ...

Good Quality Japanese Iron Stirrup Abumi, fine quality silver inlaid overall with flowering foliage and 8 character signature (not translated), hi...

^ Good Quality and Very Unusual Chinese Carved Ivory Dagger, 19th Century or Earlier, straight swollen double edge blade, ivory hilt finely carved...

Rare and Unusual Chinese Short Sword, Late 18th Century, curved single edge blade cut with a single narrow fuller, brass hilt well-formed as a lio...

Massive Chinese Polearm Glaive, 19th Century, broad curved single edge blade swollen towards the tip and chiselled at root with reinforcement in r...

Good Set of 4 Chinese Polearms, 19th Century, the first with crescent-shaped head, iron guard with up-turned edge, on its original wooden haft wit...

German-Made Dress Sword Probably for Siam c.1900, curved single edge blade cut with 2 fullers with traces of etching, nickel hilt with an elephant...

Bhutanese Short Sword, 19th century, broad heavy single blade, wooden hilt with silver pommel and ferule, in its open-fronted wooden scabbard with...

Fine Turkish Sword Kilij, broad finely pattern welded blade with pronounced yelman gold inlaid with 2 cartouches of script (not translated) one da...

^ Fine Turkish Sword Yataghan Dated 1826, recurved blade signed and gold inlaid with a distich (not translated) within panels and with extensive g...

^ Good Turkish Sword Yataghan, early 19th century, single edge recurved blade finely decorated with gold damascene overall including the maker’s s...

^ Good Turkish Silver Mounted Sword Yataghan, recurved single edge blade silver inlaid with several inscriptions (not translated) including the da...

Unusual Turkish Brass Hilt Sword Yataghan, recurved single edge blade with good quality silver inlaid full length inscriptions on both sides inclu...

Turkish Sword Yataghan, recurved single edge blade nicely silver inlaid with a Turkish toughra, inscriptions including the maker’s name, and the d...

^ Fine Ottoman Turkish Sword Shamshir, mid-19th century, curved single edge blade with fine dark watering, silver gilt mounts of excellent quality...

^ Fine Ottoman Turkish Sword Shamshir, mid-19th century, curved single edge blade with fine dark watering inlaid with 2 gold cartouches ‘Slave of ...

^ Fine Ottoman Turkish Sword Shamshir, mid-19th century, curved single edge blade (possibly Lvov, early 18th century) with sham watering inlaid wi...

^ Large Ottoman Silver Mounted Sword Shamshir, mid-19th century, broad curved single edge Persian watered steel blade cut with assorted fullers an...

^ Scarce Ottoman Sword Kilij, Probably Early 18th Century, curved hollow ground sham watered single edge blade possibly from Lvov, with pronounce...

Ottoman Turkish Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistol, early 19th century, rounded foliate engraved lock, flared iron barrel deeply chiselled with panoply ...

Scarce Ottoman Turkish Iron Horse’s Head Defence Chanfron, Second Half of the 16th Century, embossed with 6 vertical flutes which divide around th...

Very Rare Ottoman Turkish Shield Kalkan, 17th Century, Taken as Booty from the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683, made from coiled fig withies bound ...

19th Century Kurdish Dagger Jambya, broad curved double edge blade of watered steel with raised central rib, iron hilt of conventional form covere...

Fine Georgian Niello Silver Mounted Sword Shamshir, late-19th century, earlier Persian curved single edge blade of good quality Qum (gravel meande...

Fine Quality Georgian (?) Kindjal, late 19th century, plain shallow diamond section blade, iron hilt and sheath inlaid with charming silver dragon...

Fine Quality Georgian (?) Kindjal, late 19th century, plain shallow diamond section blade with deep off-set single fullers, iron hilt and sheath i...

Fine and Very Rare Caucasian Iron Shield from Dagestan, 19th Century, embossed with central umbo and engraved overall with various animals, birds,...

Fine Qjar Dynasty Steel Axe Tabar, crescent-shaped head of watered steel, chiselled with seated figures and flowering foliage, gold damascened bor...

Good Persian Axe Tabarzin, 19th century, watered steel head chiselled with hawk attacking bird within flowering foliage on both sides, gold damasc...

Fine Persian Single Side Plate from a Body Armour Char Aina, Qjar Dynasty, central plate of wootz steel chiselled with cartouches containing split...

A Persian Iron Arm Guard Bazu Band, Qjar Dynasty, chiselled overall with flowering foliage, design includes blind shaped panels with soft metal da...

Fine Persian Helmet Khula Khud, Qjar Dynasty, wootz steel bowl embossed with 4 sun faces with etched details, further etched with 4 large cartouch...

Very Fine Persian Helmet Khula Khud and Matching Shield Dhal, Qjar Dynasty, both chiselled overall with bands of silver damascened inscriptions (n...

Persian Iron Shield Dhal, Qjar Dynasty, pierced with 5 cartouches pierced with inscriptions (not translated) and with many further cartouches of v...

Good Quality Persian Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistol, early 19th century, flared damascus twist barrel finely chiselled with cartouches containing fl...

Persian All-Steel Dagger Jambya, blade unusually etched with 2 winged figures against an inscribed ground (not translated), fish inhabiting seawee...

Large Persian Steel Cleaver, Qjar Dynasty, broad swollen single edge blade etched on both sides with bands of inscriptions (not translated) and sc...

Arab Dagger Jambya, late 19th century, curved double edge blade with raised central rib, horn hilt with silver backplate, decorated with zinc nail...

Large Arab Low-Grade Silver Mounted Dagger Jambya, 19th century, curved broad double edge blade with central rib, horn gip with filigree mounts, i...

Good Silver Mounted Wahhabite Dagger Jambya, late 19th century, broad tapered double edge blade, 2 piece horn grips with copper slips, with elabor...

Indian Dagger Jambya for the Arab Market, late 19th century, curved polished double edge blade with raised central rib, horn hilt with zinc nail-h...

Large Arab Dagger Jambya Probably from the Hadhramaut, late 19th century, broad double edge blade with raised central rib, horn hilt with silver a...

Iraqi Dagger Jambya, curved double edge blade with raised central rib, silver hilt and sheath applied with 5 shaped gold labels, engraved overall ...

Large Yemeni Dagger Jambya c.1950, broad curved double edge blade with raised central rib, horn hilt with zinc nail head decoration and silver ban...

Large Yemeni Dagger Jambya c.1950, broad curved double edge blade with raised central rib, horn hilt with zinc nail head decoration and tin mounts...

Unusual Arab Powder Flask, early 19th century, of ram’s horn shape leather-covered, front decorated with chevron pattern of zinc nail heads, some ...

^ Good Indian Sword Shamshir Late-18th Century, heavy broad curved single edge blade of Kirk Narduban watering and forged with the celebrated step...

^ Good Indian Sword Shamshir, early 19th century, curved single edge blade with sham watering, wootz crosspiece with a little gold damascened deco...

^ Good Indian Sword Shamshir, early 19th century, curved single edge watered steel blade of Indian Qum pattern, iron crosspiece and hilt mounts ex...

^ Good Indian Sword Shamshir, early 19th century, curved single edge wootz steel blade with the ‘Indian ricasso’, iron crosspiece and hilt mounts ...

Fine Indian Sword Shamshir, early 19th century, broad curved single edge watered steel blade cut with a broad fuller and gold damascened with a fi...

Good Indian Sword Shamshir from Kutch, mid-19th century, curved single edge boldly pattern welded curved single edge blade with gold and silver da...

Good Indian Sword Shamshir from Kutch, mid-19th century, curved single edge blade with a panel of thickly silver damascened flowering foliage on e...

^ Unusual Indian Sword Shamshir, 19th century, curved single edge burnished pattern welded blade struck with the ‘bite mark’, one cut side with si...

Indian Sword Shamshir, Late 18th Century, curved single edge wootz steel blade with inlaid cartouche dated AH1201 (=1787AD) (most inlay now missin...

^ Rare Short Sword from Oude (Lucknow) Dated 1819, heavy silver blade of early nimcha form with swollen false edge, cut with 3 narrow fullers, eng...