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Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £2150

Click and use the code >25259 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb, Wonderful, & Highly Amusing, Antique Edwardian, Carved Automata Bulldog´s Head Gadget Cane. That Is Not Only A ´Glove Holder´ Handled Walking Stick, But A Superbly Secretly Concealed Sword-Stick

Nation : -
Local Price : 2,750.00 USD

US M.1832 GENERAL OFFICER’S SWORD. An exceptional example of a rare pattern is Peterson #113. Gilt hilt with boat-shaped guard. The guard edge and knuckle bow with the beaded motif. Olive-shaped pommel secured with a nut. Silver sheet simulating wire wrap to the grip. 30 ½” broad d.e. blade decorated with naturalistic foliage, potted foliate display, Eagle with motto ribbon, arms display with crossed cannons, draped vignette, and Indian headdress with star band. Exceptional condition throughout. The decoration is uniform and complete. Hilt with near-all heavy gold overlay, the left edge of the guard, and the pommel top are only weak/worn from being worn and resting the hand on the pommel. Just the second example we have ever offered and the best we have seen.

Nation : British
Local Price : €2600

Very old mandau with stars - With exceptional, well crafted and heavy blade..

Nation : Tibetan
Local Price : €2600

Large Eastern Tibetan sword - With very long hairpin forged blade..

Nation : British
Local Price : £2100

Click and use the code >25335 to search for this item on the dealer website Incredibly Rare Crimean War Romanov Senior Officer´s Sword Knot, Such As Worn By A Romanov Grand Duke of Russia, Or General. The Bullion Gold And Crimson Silk Knot Bears The Romanov Crest on One Side and a Cyrillic Royal Monogram on The Other

Nation : British
Local Price : $3800.00 CAD

NORTHERN EUROPEAN BROADSWORD. NORTHERN EUROPEAN BROADSWORD: Circa 1630-1640. 33 ½ inch blade by 1 ½ inch wide. The cross-guard is engraved on the right side, faint on the outer ring. Note the thumb ring on the left side. The grip wrapping looks to be an early Victorian restoration. VG $3800.00

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,050.00

Scottish 1798 Pattern Infantry Broadsword of Pipe Major Munro, 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs). Description Straight spear-pointed blade with single narrow fuller and short ricasso. Brass basket hilt, brass ferrule and pommel, spiral-carved wood grip covered with leather. No scabbard. Blade 32 7/8 inches in length, the sword 38 3/8 inches overall. The hilt is engraved across multiple bars with &#acute;Sergeant Munro PIPE MAJOR 78th HIGHLANDERS&#acute;. The 1798 was the first standardized pattern of broadsword introduced for all Highland regiments, and it is unusual to be able to link one to a specific regiment, let alone individual. Its hilt being of brass (or sometimes gilded copper) was probably easier to manufacture than chiselled steel baskets, but was more fragile and many examples today show some degree of breakage. Its replacement was the 1828 Pattern but adoption of this new sword was not strict and the old model could be carried as long as it remained serviceable: a painting by Michael Angelo Hayes of a company of the 78th shows them carrying the 1798 Pattern as late as 1840. Even when regiments did adopt it, the 1828 Pattern was to be carried only by officers and NCOs, meaning that pipers and drummers in all Highland regiments retained the 1798 Pattern until 1857. At the turn of the 19th century bagpipers were already key to the identity and morale of Highland regiments. Each company of a regiment would have included one piper, with ten companies in a full-strength regiment. Pipers wore the uniform of the rank and file but carried the broadsword, like a non-commissioned officer. Pipers sounded calls for the various events of the day, played for the officers at dinner and marked time for manual labour that needed to be done to a rhythm. On the battlefield the expectations for a piper were remarkable: other regimental musicians were expected to put their instruments aside and act as medical orderlies to carry away the wounded. Pipers meanwhile were instead expected to march in with their companies and continue playing even in the thick of combat. There was no official Army funding for pipers in this period. The pipers were paid either by the captain of their respective company, or out of regimental funds. Some regiments are recorded as establishing ’Pipe Funds’, contributed to on a voluntary basis by officers. In order to get the pipers official pay they were sometimes appointed drummers on paper, although presumably this somewhat depleted the regiment’s drums. The ’head piper’ was called the Pipe Major. This was a purely honorary position with the other pipers being under him for the purposes of music only “ for matters of discipline they came under the Drum Major. Note that Pipe Major Munro&#acute;s actual rank was Sergeant, as inscribed on his sword. There would have been only one Pipe Major at any given time, always attached to the Colonel&#acute;s company, and he would have carried the Regimental Banner on ceremonial occasions. In 1822 the position was officially renamed to ’Sergeant Piper’, although this never caught on in common usage, the officious renaming of an unpaid honorary position not being warmly received. Despite their central position in their regiments pipers did not gain full recognition by the Army until 1854. Frustratingly, this lack of proper place for the pipers is reflected in regimental records of the time, including the regiment&#acute;s original rolls at the National Archives, which do not actually list the 78th Highlanders&#acute; pipers: only drummers are listed. There are at any given time multiple Munros in the regiment. It is a common surname in Ross-shire, and its spelling could vary, the same man sometimes referred to as Monro or Monroe. Which if any recorded Munros are pipers is unclear, let alone pipe majors. As noted above, the possible date range for service of a piper using this model of sword spans from 1798 until 1857, making the task even harder. I have consulted with the Highlanders Museum but even with their assistance have not been able to pin down any details on their Pipe Majors. I am grateful to the staff of the Museum for finding records to suggest one possible candidate “ Piper A. Munro who served with the regiment during the Napoleonic Wars and showed conspicuous bravery playing on even while wounded in battle at Merxem in 1814 “ but while he would certainly have carried this model of sword, I do not think there is enough evidence to say with confidence that individual is the one linked to this sword (for instance, it is unknown whether or not he became Pipe Major). Further details on that Piper Munro can be provided if you are interested. The 78th Highlanders was raised in 1793 by Francis Humberston MacKenzie, Chief of Clan Mackenzie and later Lord Seaforth. After service in the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, Indian Mutiny and several smaller conflicts, it was amalgamated with the 72nd Regiment (Duke of Albany’s Own Highlanders) in 1881 to form the Seaforth Highlanders. This remained intact through both World Wars, reduced to one battalion in 1946 and was amalgamated with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders in 1961 to form the Queen’s Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons). This merged with the Gordon Highlanders in 1994 to form the Highlanders regiment, which in 2006 became the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS). The blade has patination and pitting, with nicks to its edges on both sides. It remains firmly peened with no movement to the hilt or grip. One of the hilt bars with trefoil end is I believe a replacement, based on the colour of its brass. There are also other spots where I believe old cracks have been mended by brazing in new brass as filler, especially where the side bars join the central bar near the quillon. Areas of green-black staining to the hilt. The inside of the hilt is very darkly patinated. The grip appears to have had a wire binding, now lost. The leather covering of the grip is mostly intact with some small patches lost to handling on the raised areas of the spiral as well as areas of loss next to the ferrule and pommel. There is one crack to the grip which runs from the ferrule about three quarters of the grip&#acute;s length “ this runs deep, perhaps through to the tang itself, but as noted above the grip remains solid.

Nation : American
Local Price : 2,650.00 USD

RARE AND IMPORTANT AMERICAN HORSEMAN’S SWORD, FEDERAL PERIOD. C.1800 of a pattern which evolved directly from Revolutionary war examples. Made for a state militia cavalry unit before 1808 and undoubtedly served in the War of 1812. Brass hilt with slotted P form guard and wire wrapped leather covered grip made without wire wrap. 33” broad fullered hand hammered blade with transverse tool finish to the right side. Old preservative over scattered light oxidation and clear lamination indicating wrought iron composition. The workmanship and character accord In detail with the handmade swords of the Revolution. The style, most significantly, the recurved knuckle bow, suggests slightly later manufacture. That feature was evolving in French Napoleonic swords and fully developed by the 1808 government contracts. Prior to 1808, state militias supplied their own weapons of which this is one. Patterns varied and very few examples identifiable to that period exist. It is likely that most state militia swords were repurposed Revolutionary War swords. After 1808, the government supplied weapons to the militias.