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Nation : British
Local Price : £2450.00

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword. With tapering fullered blade, basket hilt composed of flattened bars united by ovoid and rectangular pierced junction plates, bun shaped pommel, wire bound wooden grip. Dimensions: Blade Length: Overall Length:

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : €3.000,00

Katana japonesa “Kai Gunto” de Oficial de Marina, modelo 1937, con hoja tradicional siglo XVIII.. Empuñadura (Tsuka) cubierta con piel de raya (Same), encintada (Ito), provista de menukis. Tsuba de marina. Hoja del siglo XVIII forjada al estilo tradicional. Espiga de la hoja (Nakago) firmada (Mei). Línea de temple (hamon) bien marcada. Habaki en plata. Vaina (Saya) de madera forrada con piel de tiburón. Muy buena conservación. Dos pequeñas mellas en el filo. Longitud total 97 cm, hoja 72 cm. Images courtesy of ANTIGUEDADES SALA (https://armasantiguas.com)

Nation : British
Local Price : €3000

Baram Kayan mandau - Of the northern part of Sarawak. With a very finely chiseled blade..

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £2395

Click and use the code >25231 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Fine & Incredibly Impressive Napoleonic 1st Empire French Cuirassier´s Sword. The Largest Cavalry Sword Ever Made, for The Tallest Soldiers of France, & Used At Waterloo

Nation : French
Local Price : 3,100.00 USD

FRENCH SILVER HILT SMALLSWORD C.1770. Made for a military officer, displaying military and classical arms and armor in oval panels to the pommel, grip, knuckle bow, quillon block and inside of the shells. The balance intricately decorated in patterns of pyramids, chevrons and other minute shapes, a precursor to the fully studded steel hilt examples of two decades later. 35 1/4" triangular blade representing an extreme in length for the type, etched, blued and gilt first quarter with foliage and arms. Gold and blue both somewhat weak but present. The balance of the blade crisp with old preservative. Hilt excellent with remains of the heavy fire gilt in protected places.

Nation : Persian
Local Price : £2375

Click and use the code >24186 to search for this item on the dealer website One Of The Most Impressive, Fiersome, & Effective, Combat Weapons Ever Created. A 1600´s to Early 1700´s Mughul Period Battle Mace Shishpar With 8 Flanged Head and Khanda Sword Hilt. A Most Formidable Usually Hindu Piece Yet As Popular in Anci

Nation : British
Local Price : £2350

English Dish Hilted Rapier dating to the Second Quarter of the 17th century. The solid globular pommel has an integral waisted neck beneath and raised button on top. It is decorated with chiselled overlapping circles and foliate designs same as those on the dish guard. The grip is of baluster shaped rounded square cross section with a vertical groove on each side. It is spirally bound with alternating steel and brass twisted wire, two ropes of steel for each one of brass. Woven steel rope “Turks' Heads” are mounted top and bottom of the grip. The stiff blade is of tapering slightly flattened diamond section and just over 40 inches (just over 101 cm) long. It a short ricasso from which a deep fuller is cut extending for 9.5 inches (24 cm) along each side. The fuller on one side is stamped in capital letters with: SINAL ES EL CAVISCO DE BOOY and on the reverse: CLEMENTE BONIM EN ALAMANIA, the words on both sides interspaced with patterns of dots. The phrases seem to be in Latin and are not yet precisely translated, but such inscriptions tend to follow a standard pattern. The first phrase would state something like “I was made by”, whilst the second would say who did make the blade, in this case Clemente Bonim, who made the blade in Germany (en Alamania). Clearly the blade is a German import into England. Blademaking in England was a small industry and not well established at this time. Most blades were imported from German blade making centres of which Solingen was the most important. The rapier retains an even blackened dense russet patination all over. The hilt retains its pleasing original profile. The overall length of the rapier is just over 47 inches (119 cm). English rapiers of this date exhibit a common form and style, however, there are many variations under this umbrella. Many are seemingly unique like our example discussed here. For different styles of English rapiers see Stuart C Mowbray, “British Military Swords”, 2013, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Volume One, 1600 to 1660, pages 254 to 281.

Nation : British
Local Price : £2350

1798 Pattern Scottish Highland Infantry Officers’ Sword with Gilt Copper Hilt. An example of the distinctive basket hilted sword introduced for Scottish Infantry officers in Highland Regiments in 1798. It was replaced by the regulation steel basket hilt 1828 pattern three decades later. The sword type was used throughout the Napoleonic War period. This sword has most of its gilt covering to the bronze hilt still in place. The hilts of these swords were most usually made of gilt copper, bronze or brass. The hilt of this sword is of gilt bronze. The basket guard is made of rounded bars and flattened plates in the usual manner with forward loop guards and a swollen solid wrist guard terminal to the rear quillon. The upper terminals of the guard arms are fixed onto a ring inside which the stem of the mushroom shaped pommel is fitted. The pommel is dome-shaped with a large separate waisted and domed pommel button on top from which four sets of decorative grooves flanked by narrower lines radiate to the pommel edge. The double-edged gently tapering blade is 32.75 inches (83 cm) long. Typically it is of lenticular section with a short ricasso. A central fuller commences a short distance from the hilt on each side and is 8 inches (20 cm) long. The blade is unmarked and probably a German import which was the norm for this sword type and most probably of Solingen manufacture. The grip is of spirally grooved wood covered with shagreen held in place with thin ropes of twisted copper wire flanked with plainer thinner wire now coloured with age. It is mounted with gilt bronze ferrules top and bottom which are incised with decorative lines. The materials used for 1798 pattern hilts were less robust than iron and as a result were more susceptible to damage. Many surviving and published examples have bars missing, are out of shape and are often with repairs. This sword is a fine example without any such problems. The blade has a few small patches of blackened age-related staining in places and the hilt has kept its shape without damage or repairs as can be seen in the photos. For other examples of the 1798 type see: Harvey J S Withers, “The Scottish Sword 1600-1945”, Paladin Press, 2009, pages 13 to 151 and Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press, 2005, pages 131 to 133.