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Nation : British
Local Price : £18500

Click and use the code >24917 to search for this item on the dealer website Battle of Agincourt, Henry Vth, Knightly Hand and a Half Sword, Also Known as a Bastard Sword, due to It Being A Transition Sword From A Single Handed To A Two Handed Sword

Nation : American
Local Price : 25000.00 USD

Ex Rare American Revolution Signed Horseman’s Saber, Ex Flayderman Coll.. Here is the rarest of the rare when it comes to American Revolutionary War horseman’s sabers! It is the only recorded example of a horseman’s sword attributed to Pennsylvania cutler Josiah Wood and struck deeply with his mark on the blade’s ricasso. Ex Norman Flayderman collection and pictured in the most important reference for American Rev War swords; “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution”, by George Neumann, plate 314s. Josiah Wood contracted with the Committee of Safety for production of pikes during the Revolution. He is recorded in “Arms Makers of Colonial America” by Whisker, page 205. The Wood saber is constructed in the usual Rev War era 4 slot guard pattern, but the side bars are not straight, they are diamond shaped and the entire hilt is profusely decorated all over with 100’s of tiny differing punches. It is highlighted by the beautiful, tall decorated pommel. The original, twist carved, walnut grip is completely intact (no damage or cracking) as is the original brass grip wire (now slightly loose from natural wood grip shrinkage). The plain, flat, curved blade measures 33” and is deeply struck at the ricasso with Josiah Wood’s mark. It is in untouched, uncleaned condition with a deep aged patina. Only some mild pitting near tip. Sword is in overall excellent original condition! Signed American Rev War sabers are extreme rarities. A James Potter, NY horseman’s saber now brings about $25,000. Our Josiah Wood saber is considerably rarer (and absolutely gorgeous) compared to the plain black, non decorated Potter sabers. When you take into consideration that there are an estimated 30 + surviving examples of the James Potter sabers and only one known example of the Josiah Wood saber there is no comparison! This is truly the rarest of the rare! For the most advanced American Revolutionary collection or museum. If you want the best of the best and the rarest of the rare, here it is! Serious inquires only. Please state full name and location if you would like a response. We are only asking 25K on this great, museum quality, signed American Revolutionary War horseman's saber. About the same as the going price of a common James Potter horseman's saber. Don't let this pass you by. He who hesitates is lost! Be sure to check out our other listings for more great swords, arms and armor! Our direct email address is: [email protected]

Nation : German
Local Price : $16995.00

Exceptional German Hand-and-a-Half Sword, 2nd Quarter 16th C. Featuring hilt of blackened hand-forged iron with elaborate guard of round-section bars forming horizontally recurved quillons with 6-pronged finials. Side ring with bars looping down and outward from the center, with checkered band joining them in the middle and ending with serpent head finials. Large pas d’ane with bars extending perpendicular to the blade and ending in 6-prong finials; the reverse with looping bars extending from the lower end of the pas d’ane and crossing to connect with the quillon on one and and forming a thumb ring on the other where it joins the quillon block. Two-stage wood grip with original leather wrap and very old museum label on the reverse; writhen vase-shaped pommel with checkered round button. Doubled-edged 37 3/8” (97.5 cm) blade of hexagonal section; the ricasso stamped with a maker’s mark on each side and the upper third with a line-bordered design of interlocking jagged-edged ovals on both sides, ending with a large anchor mark. Appears to be totally untouched and original; the blade sharp with scattered light to moderate pitting. Guard with two attached numbered metal collection tags. Grip showing great age with minor losses, cracks, and flaking. Very fine quality, with intricate and unique design, showing great age. Overall length 44 1/4” (112 cm).

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £15995

Click and use the code >23683 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning True Art Sword. A Spectacular & Immensely. Beautiful Museum Grade Cloisonne Enamel Samurai´s Suzaku Phoenix Tachi With A Signed Shinto Blade By Bizen Kuniyoshi. Bearing the Paulownia Mon of the Imperial Court

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £15500

Click and use the code >25536 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful Koto-Shinto Period Signed Yasuhiro, in KiiKuni. Antique Samurai Daisho With Rokakku Clan Mon. Traditional Daisho, the Two Swords Of The Samurai, Comprise a Fine Daito Long Sword & Signed Shoto Short Sword. With With Pierced Rokakko Mon

Nation : Italian
Local Price : $14995.00

Exquisite North Italian (Brescia) Flintlock Pistol, ca. 1650. This exceptional pistol represents the height of the gunmaker's art at a time when all the work was done by hand. It features a three-stage 15 3/8″ barrel of approximately .50 caliber, with central relief-carved Green Man face, the nose of which serves as a front sight; the ribbed breech signed “”, the world's premier barrel-making family of the 17th C. Lock plate chiseled in relief with Green Man face at the rear and Leda and the Swan forward of the hammer; the serpentine hammer chiseled in the round with warrior holding a shield and sword; frizzen with Green Man face. Forward of the pan is a small flat, signed “G. Bat./Frani Bcia” in script, for Giovanni Battista Francino (2nd?), Brescia. Expertly restored figured root walnut full stock with inset chiseled steel panels and mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and additional grotesque mask motifs en suite with the barrel and lock, and chiseled and pierced winged grotesque-figure trigger, pierced trigger-guard finial, and a belt-hook. Wood ramrod with turned and chiseled steel tip. The metal smooth and chiseling crisp. The Green Man is often featured in classical art and architecture. Overall length 22 ½”. Flintlock pistols by Giovanni Battista Francino are featured in the Wallace Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and this one is much nicer! It would be difficult to find a better quality flintlock pistol at any price. Provenance: the prestigious Norman Blank Collection.

Nation : North European
Local Price : $14995.00

Silver Inlaid North European Rapier from Hever Castle, ca. 1630. Iron hilt of flattened oval-section bars with vertically recurved quillions expanding toward the ends with button finials; large side ring; the reverse of round-section bars with thumb ring; and flattened pear-shaped pommel. Hilt entirely encrusted with silver on a blackened background, including a running pattern of foliage, fish on the quillon terminals, a dragon being slayed by an armored figure on the obverse face of the pommel and the multi-headed hound of Hades Cerberus on the reverse. The grip bound with plaited wire and finished with Turks heads top and bottom. Double-edged tapering 35 3/4” (90.8 cm) blade of flattened hexagonal section with 6 1/2” central fuller stamped “XX MADERET XX” on each side with a stamped anchor mark at the fuller's end. Overall length 41 1/2” (105.4 cm). Blade with light pitting; small collection label “143” on blade and inside of side ring; silver lightly worn in spots, but excellent overall. The 1983 Hever Castle Sale catalog suggests that the silver was applied later, though we have no idea how this was determined, other than by its exceptional state of preservation. This style rapier carried by cavalry under the command of Gustavus Adolphus during the Thirty Years War. Provenance: The Lord Astor of Hever, The Hever Castle Collection, sold Sotheby's, 5th May 1983, lot 129. Generally known simply as the “Hever Castle Sale”, this sale is considered to be perhaps the most important sale of arms and armor in the modern era.

Nation : ?
Local Price : $14995.00

Fine and Unique Chiseled European Rapier, First Half 17th C. Featuring slender tapering 40″ blade of flattened hexagonal section with long flat ricasso stamped with crowned “S” bladesmith’s mark on each side, (indistinct on one side); short central fuller on each side with line engraved and dotted borders and incised with ‘I.O.H.A.N.I.’ and stamped anchor mark on both sides . Hilt of slender bars of reeded diamond-section retaining traces of punched and incised decoration and comprising down- curved quillon with large chiseled foliate terminal carrying an openwork oval pierced with symmetrical scrollwork on both sides within punched borders and with bud-shaped tip chiseled with foliage. Large obverse side-ring, tapering knuckle-guard screwed to the pommel, all chiseled en suite; obverse with down-bent shell-guard extending from the quillon block and pierced with engraved symmetrical scrollwork. Triangular quillon block engraved with devil face. Vertically-ribbed grip bound with twisted iron wire between Turk’s heads. Very good condition with some wear and light pitting commensurate with age. Overall length 46 5/8″. Provenance: Thomas Del Mar, Ltd. in association with Sotheby’s, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26 June 2007, lot 155, sold for 10,000 British Pounds plus premium (about $24,000 USD at the time). At a time of rapid inflation it is quite a bargain to obtain a rare work of art like this at considerably less than it sold for more than 15 years ago.