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Nation : Italian
Local Price : £1750

Click and use the code >22288 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare & Beautiful 16th-17th Century Italian Maine Gauche. A Renaissance Period Duellist´s Parrying, Shell Guard Dagger, For Combined Use With The Cup Hilt Or Swept Hilt Rapier

Nation : British
Local Price : £1750

Click and use the code >22179 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare British Army Officer´s 1801, Egyptian Campaign, Snake Goddess´ Head Light Infantry Officer&#acute;s Sword. Used Throughout The Entire Napoleonic Wars Up To The Battle of Waterloo. Likely By An Officer of &#acute;The Glosters&#acute;

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £1,750.00

**GENDAITO HAND FORGED SPECIAL ORDER BLADE** WW2 Era Japanese Army Officer’s Type 98 Shin Gunto Sword Lay Priest Smith Signed ‘Ishi Hara Nyu Do Kane Tada Kitau’ Rank Tassel, Scabbard & Expert Assessment. Sn 23174:33 -. This sword has been assessed by a UK based Japanese sword expert Bill Tagg. His assessment accompanies this piece. In the assessment he states ““A Type 98 army officers shin gunto with a traditionally forged blade. Also has kokuin or hot stamp. A special order blade – gendaito signed ‘Ishi Hara(Family name) Nyu Do (Lay Priest) Kane Tada (Go or Art Name) Kitau (Forged)’. This is a high quality gendai blade. In original old war time polish, scratched and stained in places obscuring the forging details. Needs professional polish. With regular Gunome hamon line, nioi crystal based also has nie and hataraki work inji & hamon a well made blade been carried & used in war, some small nibbles to edge & slight bend. Saya metal parade gunto pattern worn & dented in places shows signs of combat use paint missing & finish gone from mounts. Tsuba a full set of seppa number 48 with quality brass tsubato match no gilt left. Tsuka shows heavy use with broken Ito (needs re-wrap), fish skin intact. Has working locking catch & brass wire sarute loop with brown / blue rank tassel for Lt to Captain rank. Ishi Hara Keiichi (family name) born 1920 made this using his name Kane Tada & saying he is a lay priest (Shinto?) see Markus Sessko book for info from pa/no 273. See Fuller & Gregory books on Smiths List 126 Oshigata No. 218 for info. Not a lot written about this man. Worthy of restoration”. In his drawings of the blade he describes the cutting edge as 64.5 cms length and overall length 87 cms, he also describes other blade measurements & characteristics (illustrated in image 2). The price includes UK delivery. Sn 23174:33

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £1750

Click and use the code >24869 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous & Huge Antique Chinese Ching Dynasty Dao, a Sword of War. A Combat Sword of Immense Stature. From The 1800´s During The Imperial Qianlong, Emperor of the Qing, the Manchu Dynasty

Nation : British
Local Price : £1,745.00

1788 Light Cavalry Troopers Sword. Ref 9345. A 1788 Light Cavalry Troopers Sword. 39&157; overall, 33&157; curved&194;&160; blade with&194;&160; one broad fuller, engraved ´Devon Light Dragoons´ on both sides, back edge stamped ´J J Runkel. Sohlingen´. D shaped chamfered knuckle bow, flat pommel, double bar langets, ribbed wooden grip. In its original iron&194;&160;scabbard, sword and scabbard with A2 rack number. Circa 1795&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; In very good condition&194;&160; See ’The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912’ by Richard Dellar, chapter 1 for 1788 swords, page 7 for similar blade engraving, & chapter 25 for information on J. J. Runkel, & page 278 for details of his blade signatures. &194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : £1700

English Silver Hilted Small Sword made between 1720 and 1726 by George Willcocks of London. For information regarding George Willcocks’s life as a ‘gifted silver-hilt maker and sword cutler' and for a further example of his work see Leslie Southwick's “London Silver-hilted Swords”, Royal Armouries, 2001, page 279, plate 29. This sword by George Willcocks is in the Royal Armouries Collection, Ref IX.2241. It is more comprehensively marked with a date stamp for 1720 / 1721 and stamped with the maker’s initials in the same place on the Knucklebow and pommel button. Willcocks died young at the age of 33. As evidenced by the date of the earliest possible date for his Sterling mark and the date of his death this sword clearly dates to the period between 1720 and 1726. The blade length is 31.75 inches (80.25 cm) and the overall length of the sword is just over 38.25 inches (97 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £1700

Exquisitely Chiselled Silver Hilted Small Sword by William Kinman of London Hallmarked for 1775/1776. An exceptional silver hilted smallsword by the renowned 18th century London silversmith and cutler, William Kinman, date-stamped for 1775/1776. The hilt is in excellent condition and an admirable example of the London silver hilt makers’ art at this time. The flat oval guard is of exceptional quality, chiselled and pierced with a sunburst design enhanced with beaded brilliants around the pierced perimeter. The pommel, knuckle bow, and quillon block are worked in a similar manner. The knucklebow is swollen and pierced at the middle. The baluster shaped wooden grip is of rounded rectangular section diagonally bound with contra twisted ropes of silver wire of different thicknesses separated by crimped silver ribbon. It is mounted with silver cap terminals top and bottom engraved with clam shells. The stiff, slender, triangular section, hollow ground, colichemarde blade is deceptively robust. The hallmarks are of small type stamped into the Pas D'Ane rings and consist of the maker's mark of “W K” in raised relief inside a depressed panel with a pellet between the letters, the lion passant mark, crowned leopard's head assay mark and date stamp. The underside of the is also stamped with the lion passant and the maker’s mark. The lion passant also appears on the collar at the top of the grip. William Kinman was one of the most influential and preeminent makers of silver hilted swords working in London in the third quarter of the 18th century. He made swords for the London social and military elites. He was a leading member of the Founders' Company of London and served in all the major offices of the guild including Master. Kinman was born in 1728 and was sworn free of the Founders' Company in 1750, when presumably he started to make silver hilted swords under his own name and was admitted to livery in 1757. Kinman entered his first mark at Goldsmiths' Hall in 1759 (Grimwade 1990 reference 3210) which is his mark on this sword. William Kinman was at his most prominent in the earlier part of his career, when this sword was made, later becoming bankrupt due to the failure of a founding business he was involved in. The sword is in fine condition overall. There are no losses or repairs to the hilt which has maintained its original pleasing outline. The blade has some shallow “salt and pepper” pitting which is more than offset by the outstanding quality of the hilt. The blade 31.75 inches (80.75 cm) long and overall the sword is 38 inches (96.5 cm) long. For a near identical sword by William Kinman see Leslie Southwick, “London Silver-Hilted Swords”, Royal Armouries, 2001, page 291, Plates 75, 76 & 77, for a sword in The Royal Armouries, Collection Reference: IX.3782. And for further information on Kinman's life of see pages 159 and 160.

Nation : -
Local Price : $1,695.00

Maratha (Indian) Firangi Sword, 18th C.