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c. 1400 AD. Medieval Persian. Iron sword or large dagger, with curved blade, protruding rectangular guard, and flaring tang. One side of the blade is decorated with silver inlaid letters, perhaps reading “Allah [God] is Great.” Medieval Persia was an unstable and warlike place, where a dozen different dynasties rose and fell by the blade in the course of the 500 years before the Safavids brought peace and stability to the region in 1501 AD. This beautiful axe embodies the need for medieval Persians to be armed and ready in order to survive and thrive. Good condition, on a custom made stand.Size: L:610mm / W:80mm ; 580g; Provenance: From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
c. 1400 AD. medieval Persian. Iron sword or large dagger, with curved blade, protruding barb on the exterior and flaring tang for insertion into a handle. One side of the blade is decorated with silver inlaid letters, perhaps reading “Allah [God] is Great.” Medieval Persia was an unstable and warlike place, where a dozen different dynasties rose and fell by the blade in the course of the 500 years before the Safavids brought peace and stability to the region in 1501 AD. This beautiful axe embodies the need for medieval Persians to be armed and ready in order to survive and thrive. Good condition, on a custom-made stand. Size: L:480mm / W:65mm ; 390g; Provenance: From the private collection of a South London art professional; previously in a collection formed on the UK/European art market in the 1990s.
This beautiful cast bronze dagger has a tapering, bevelled blade adorned with two fuller or "blood grooves" and a recessed integral handle that would have been inset with stone, bone or ivory inlay. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Superb condition; On custom stand. Size: L:425mm / W:50mm ; 385g; Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman; previously acquire on the UK/European art market before 2000.
C. 1526 - 1857 AD. Mughal Empire. An iron Katar dagger or knuckleduster comprising rectangular open grip with guard. The katar or katara is characterized by its H-shaped horizontal hand grip which results in the blade sitting above the user's knuckles, allowing for maximal force to be applied through the point. A long wedge-shaped blade projects from one short end of the grip while a shorter spike extends from the other shorter end; three further small spikes protrude from one of the long ends of the grip. The short sides of the grip are decorated with gilding with incised geometric motifs and incised chevrons can also be observed on the iron of the main blade. The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire in South Asia stretching from the Indus basin to northern Afghanistan, Kashmir, the highlands of Assam and Bangladesh to the Deccan plateau in south India. During its expansion the Mughal military used a variety of weapons including swords, spears, bows and arrows, cannons, muskets and flintlock blunderbusses as well as knuckledusters like this example. Superb condition; on a custom-made stand. Size: L:270mm / W:65mm ; 155g; Provenance: Private Kent collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK art market.
A group of early nineteenth century blue and white transfer-printed Spode creamers, c.1800-20. Comprising of: a Trophies Etruscan pattern creamer, a Dragon First creamer, a Temple pattern creamer and a Mandarin, Dagger Landscape First creamer. All marked to the underside bar the Temple creamer. 11 - 14 cm long. (4)Condition: There is a hairline to the handle of the Dragon creamer and extensive damage to the Mandarin creamer. Provenance: From a private, single-owner Spode collection.
A group of late eighteenth, early nineteenth century blue and white transfer-printed Spode chinoiserie wares, c.1795-1810. To include: a Buddleia pattern soup dish, a Two Figures pattern plate, a Dagger Landscape First plate and a Long Bridge pattern plate. They are marked to the underside bar the Long Bridge plate. 23 -25 cm wide. (4)Condition: Small restored rim chip to the Long Bridge plate and a small rim chip to the Dagger plate.Provenance: From a private, single-owner Spode collection.
Magicians' Objects A group of magician's tricks and equipment to include: Holmes mirror glass; Magician's trick clock; spirit slates; various pictures of magicians, framed; dagger in neck trick; cube and ribbon; resin head of Houdini; Ivol Sigfried and Roy cased presentation volume; The Murray scrap book, with photographs, annotated, press clippings etc.; Dr Taylor's Spirit Buzzer, with instructions, in black painted wooden box; Al Koran's The Haunted Bell, with instructions, in black painted wooden box; Losander's Floating Table, with instructional DVD, in aluminium caseFootnote: Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson
A Japanese Tanto dagger, the tang signed on both sides, in later wood scabbard and grip, the blade 30.4cm, 42.5cm overall, together with a Katana with 50.5cm blade, 65cm overall, in matching lacquered scabbard, a practice Tanto dagger with wood blade, 46cm overall (inc scabbard), a cast iron Tsuba, seppa, suspension loops and a cleaning kit
Two Bow figures, circa 1770-75One modelled as Minerva wearing a plumed helmet, cuirass and patterned skirts, a puce ground drape painted with floral panels with a striped lining around her waist and shoulders, her left hand resting on a shield mounted with a mask, an owl at her feet, on a high scroll base applied with flowers, 33cm high, anchor and dagger mark in red, the other modelled as a lady wearing a blue hat, green bodice and floral skirt, holding a sheaf of wheat and flowers in her apron, a large urn beside her, the high scroll base applied with flowers and picked out in turquoise and gold, 28.8cm high, A mark in underglaze blue, anchor and dagger mark in red (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A GERMAN FULL 'ERNST ROHM' S A DAGGER, which has received the 'lazy grind' treatment in that the name of Ernst Rohm (founder and leader of the SA prior to WWII) has been ground off, other than that the dagger appears to be correct with all the correct markings etc, blade has the usual 'Ulles Fur Deutchland' on one side and In Herzlicher Kameradschaft on the other, the lower crossguard has the Gau stamp Nm 'Hamburg' district, when the grip was removed for inspection it has '6' marked on the tang, top belt hanger is intact
IWC- a gentleman's International Watch Company Schaffhausen Ingenieur automatic wristwatch, circa 1960's, champagne dial, approx. 30mm, dagger markers, stainless steel case, approx. 35mm, serial 1539932 on black leather strapCondition report: working at time of report, service advised, wear and tear scuff to glass
An Unusual English Brass-Mounted Hanger Late 17th CenturyWith slightly curved single-edged blade (old rust patination and pitting) struck on both sides towards the forte with bladesmith's portrait bust mark, one side surmounted by a latten-inlaid dagger mark, hilt comprising quillons cast and chased with foliage on both sides, the lobed recurved tips with helmeted male portrait bust on each side, basal mount with a horseman between foliage on both sides below a border of pierced foliage, large pommel-cap with helmeted male portrait bust in relief on one side and chased with a female portrait bust on the other both between vertical bands of overlapping foliage, the top with a cherub's mask in relief centred on a border of engraved foliage, and natural buckhorn grip beaked beneath the pommel 31.4 cm. bladeFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Spanish Left-Hand DaggerLate 17th CenturyWith slender tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section incised 'TOMAS AIALE' between orb-shaped marks within the fuller on one side and 'IN TOLEDO' within the other, ovoidal ricasso hollowed for the thumb on one side, hilt comprising triangular guard with turned edge, straight quillons of circular section with swelling tips, compressed bun-shaped pommel with button, and grip bound with thin twisted copper wire between iron ferrules 49.6 cm. bladeFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An English Silver-Mounted HangerLate 17th Century, Indistinct Silver Maker's Mark Of Thomas VicaridgeWith slightly curved fullered blade (some pitting) double-edged at the tip and struck with a bladesmith's mark on each side, one with dagger mark above, hilt comprising foliate engraved quillon-block, rear quillon with rounded terminal cast, pierced and chased with a cherub's head on a double scroll, knuckle-guard with a male bust on a pedestal on each side, a crown above and a cherub's mask below, the terminal (old repair) extending into the mouth of a blackamoor's head, the latter on a cap with engrailed edges, basal ferrule with foliate border, and natural buckhorn grip with side-straps, in black leather scabbard with linear engraved locket and chape, the former with frog-hook 42.5 cm. bladeFootnotes:See footnote to lot 92For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Fine English Plug Bayonet With Fire-Gilt Mounts Late 17th CenturyWith sharply tapering blade (some pitting) double-edged towards the point, the forte with traces of punched foliate decoration against a granular ground on both sides, one side struck with a dagger mark of the London Cutlers' Company above 'L' crowned, and on the other with initials 'TP', finely figured hardwood grip of tapering circular section with turned swelling at the base, punched collar above horizontal quillons with finely punched decoration and each cast in the round as a cherub, pommel with punched foliate border and surmounted by a cherub en suite, and retaining most of its original gilding, in its hard leather scabbard tooled with stars between horizonal lines along the outside and with original gilt locket and chape each with chased foliate border 31.5 cm. blade For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Rare Turkish Silver-Mounted DaggerReign Of Mehmed IV (1648-87), Circa 1680With slightly curved double-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel with reinforced point of diamond section, darkly figured hardwood two-piece grip of waisted octagonal section set with sixteen silver florets (thirteen expertly replaced) each chased with a cobweb design, and replacement silver grip-strap nielloed with repeated leaves against slender lines, in original wood-lined scabbard encased in parcel-gilt silver, the outer side (two repairs) faceted and lightly embossed and chased with running arabesques and small flower-heads between bands of nielloed scrolling foliage, and with pierced basal mount en suite, the inner side finely chased with scrolling nielloed foliage and struck with a tughra to the right of the suspension loop, locket and spherical terminal decorated en suite, the former with upper border of two plaited silver bands, and retaining some original gilding 20 cm. bladeFootnotes:ProvenanceThe Counts Schenk von Stauffenberg, Sotheby's Olympia, 10 July 2002, lot 194Almost certainly captured from the Turks at the time of the Siege of Vienna in 1683Cf. a very similar dagger, Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour, 16 July 1997, lot 10See also Holger Schuckelt, Die Türekische Cammer, Sammlung orientalisher Kunst in der kurtfürstlich-sächsischen Rüstkammer, 2010, pp. 260-261, figs. 234 and 235For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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