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  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £8750
Click and use the code >21721 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Wonderful 16th Century Koto Era Katana, Museum Quality Mounting, With Shakudo & Pure Gold Decorated Menuki of Takeda Shingen in Armour With His Tiger&#acute;s Tail Saya Mounted Sword & War Bow
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £8750
Click and use the code >23998 to search for this item on the dealer website Fine Shinto Samurai Katana Signed By Mino Swordsmith, Nodagoro Fujiwara Kanesada Circa 1720 Around 300 Years Old, With a Horai-zu Style Tsuba
  • Nation : Italian
  • Local Price : $8500.00
Rare Venetian Hand-and-a-half Sword, ca. 1490. Featuring hand-forged iron hilt of half-round and diamond-section bars with single side ring joined to a large pas d'ane. Single quillon with scroll finial, short knuckle bow ensuite and a diagonal bar extending from the base of the knuckle bow to the center of the side ring with a grasping hand at the junction. Large iron pommel of schiavona style; leather-wrapped wood grip. Broad 39 5/8″ double-edged blade with half-length central fuller, stamped with an “S” maker's mark on both sides on the ricasso (reverse strike weak). In a modern wood storage scabbard with collection label at the throat. Overall length 47 7/8″, not inlcuding scabbard. Very good condition for its age and does not appear to have ever been apart; the hilt with dark brown patina, blade moderately pitted with a few shallow edge nicks. Grip wrap possibly an old replacement. For similar Venetian swords, see “Armi Bianche Italiane”. The “S” mark is found on other Venetian swords of the late 15th Century.
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8500
Fine Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to 1720 to 1740. A fine Scottish basket hilted sword from the collection of Geoffrey Jenkinson dating to the years preceding the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The sword was exhibited in the 1996 exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden held at the Culloden Visitor Centre at the battlefield. It is also featured in the “The Swords and the Sorrows”, the publication which supported the exhibition. The sword is in fine condition and of fine quality, being well forged from sturdy iron bars and mounted with an imposing backsword blade. The fully formed basket guard has a pleasing oval outline formed from thick rectangular section structural bars. The two primary guard plates, the knuckle bow and the secondary guard panels at the sides, are pierced with decorative designs of flanged hearts and circles and finely fretted at the edges with merlons and rectangles. The primary guard plates are further enhanced with lines along each inside edge and saltires in the middle. The knucklebow and side panels are filed with vertical wide grooves down the middles with finer lines on each side. The merlon terminal at the base of each side guard bar is pierced with a flanged heart. The loop guard bars emanate downwards from the side guard bars and curve forwards to join the front quillon at the base of the knucklebow. The cross bar of the guard forming the front and rear quillons cants downwards from back to front in early style. The guard arm tops are secured in a groove chiselled around the pommel just below its middle in the traditional Scottish manner. The pommel is cone shaped and mounted with a pronounced button on top of separate manufacture from which three sets of grooved lines, flanked by narrower lines, radiate to the pommel edge. This style of decoration is consistent with that applied along the middles of the side guard bars and knuckle bow as described above. The recesses of the hilt, particularly underneath the pommel rim, show the remains of a layer of black Japanning that once covered the whole hilt (see the photos below). Japanning of sword hilts was not uncommon in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A base black layer was applied highlighted with features in gold on top.  This provided both a decorative and protective layer for the exterior of the hilt. The fashion seems to have died out by the beginning of the second quarter of the 18th century when the Japanning, as in this instance, was removed. The grip is made from a slightly baluster shaped spirally grooved wooden core of an oval cross section. It is covered with shagreen and bound with silver riband. A leather liner is mounted beneath the grip and a coloured woollen fringe at the top. The single edged blade is of fine quality as is often found on 17th and early 18th century Scottish basket hilted swords. It has a short ricasso. A deep and well formed fuller extends from the hilt under the back edge of the blade to a distance of 7 inches (17.5 cm) from the tip. Each fuller is engraved with floral patterns on each side. These are the remnants of decoration that was once present all over the blade near the hilt, having been abraded away through cleaning over time, these remnants having been protected in the groove of the fuller. A second fuller runs underneath the first commencing 9 inches (23 cm) from the hilt and extends almost to the tip. The blade was most likely made in Solingen in Germany as were many of the high quality blades mounted onto Scottish hilts. The sword is in fine condition overall. The hilt is noticeably robust and has maintained its pleasing oval profile. The wrist guard which is usually forged as an extension of the rear quillon has been broken off at some time in the distant past. Further evidence of use is present in an old nick in the blade near the end of the first fuller. The sword is a fine representation of the Scottish armourer's craft during the run up to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The blade is 33.75 inches (85.5 cm) long and tapers gently to its tip. Overall the sword is 39.75 inches (100.5 cm) long. Provenance: The Geoffrey Jenkinson Collection collection tag number 46. Publications: “The Swords and the Sorrows”, National Trust for Scotland, 1996, page 29, plate 1:12.
  • Nation : American
  • Local Price : £8495
Click and use the code >25287 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb, Rare, Original, French Napoleonic Wars Deluxe Grade Sabre of a French General of Napoleon´s General Staff, a Wonderful & Most Beautiful Sabre of Napoleon´s Grand Armee. Consulate to Ist Empire Period
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8,495.00
Pair of Flintlock Silver Mounted Pistols by Hadley. (Ref 9169). A Pair of Flintlock Silver Mounted Pistols by Hadley. 14&157; overall, 8&157; two-stage brass barrels 18 bore each slightly swamped towards the muzzle with turned girdle, octagonal breeches each signed ´Hadley London´ in capitals along the top flat & engraved with foliate rocailles fore & aft, border engraved tangs decorated with foliage. Tower private proof marks. Border engraved flat bevelled locks each signed ´Hadley´ in capitals on a foliate rococo scroll & decorated en suite on the tail, engraved cocks & steels. Figured walnut full stocks each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, rounded butts with swelling pommels, silver mounts&194;&160;comprising pierced & engraved ribbon side plates, vacant escutcheons cast & chased with a flower above & drapery below, grotesque mask caps, trigger guards each with shell & flower finial engraved with a flower head in a diamond shaped panel on the bow, turned ramrod pipes, & original horn tipped ramrods, one with iron worm.Silver Hallmarks For 1777, maker’s mark of Charles Freeth Handsome pistols in fine condition, some minor bruising to stocks. The maker is almost certainly Thomas Hadley, gunmaker Birmingham, who was apprenticed to Thomas Hudson in 1750. On the death of his father, also Thomas, in 1766 he continued the business in Birmingham and is recorded as having died in 1789. Many Birmingham gunmakers signed their firearms ’London’&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; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)
  • Nation : American
  • Local Price : 10,600.00 USD
RARE AMERICAN SILVER HILTED SMALLSWORD C.1750. This rare American sword was made by Bilious Ward of Middleton Connecticut and bears his mark on the knuckle bow terminal. Ward was born in Guilford in 1729. His mark is shown p.320, American Silversmiths, Old Silver, English, American and Foreign which is considered the standard reference for silver marks. His Father, William Ward Jr. and his son, James Ward were also silversmiths (Early Connecticut Silver, Bohan). Yale University Art Gallery has five spoons by Bilious War, 3 identified as C.1750-70 and two C.1755. New York Historical Society has a single spoon dated to 1750-70. The form of the sword is iconic. 1740s and 50s in America was the period of the Great Awakening, a time of strengthening religious values and reverting to basics. In a sense, a return to Puritanism. In American Silver Mounted Swords, 1700-1815, Peterson states “American silver hilted small swords are characterized by simple chaste lines. In Europe, most of the silver mounted smallswords of the same period were completely covered with heavily modeled or pierced decoration. In this country, however, such surface decoration was extremely rare as American craftsmen relied more upon the pure beauty of line and form to attain their artistic effect.” He illustrates and discusses 16 examples. #1-4 dated 1722-30. Three of the four incorporate traditional (European) decorative elements. #5-13 date C.1740-50 and are all of the same spartan form of this example with the iconic ringed slightly elongated pommel. In fact, the ten including this one are nearly indistinguishable but for minor details. #14-17 date C.1770-1815 and fully embrace the later European forms. Also notable is that of #5-13, eight of nine are maker marked, while none of the first four are and two of the last four are not. The blade of this example is flat, 28 5/8” in length, undecorated with a narrow fuller to the forte. Of the comparable group, seven of nine are triangular and two flat. At that time (1955) five of the nine comparable examples were in museum collections. Silver hilted swords in Colonial America were very rare and the zenith of gentlemanly style. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston reports, in a description of a sword by Jacob Hurd “Between 1730 and 1750 he (Hurd) made about ten swords, far more than his peers, most of whom made only one or two.” The 1762 inventory of silversmith John Edwards includes “One silver hilted sword at 60 pounds, 3 shillings” at a time when the per capita income in America was 15 pounds, 12 shillings. A historic Colonial American sword for which there have been no comparable examples on the market for decades.
  • Nation : -
  • Local Price : 10,500.00 USD
MAGNIFICENT SWEPT HILT RAPIER AND COMPANION LEFT HAND DAGGER. Early 20th century, by Anton Konrad, and built on matching 16th-century blades. Faithfully replicating a very fine-matched pair of German rapier and sword of about 1580-1600. Iron hits beautifully chased in high relief scrolling foliage, flowers, and fruit. Fine wire-wrapped grips with turban form terminals. The blades, 41” and 12 ½” respectively, each with maker's marks to each side of the ricasso and with deep fuller marked * PAR * CE * SIGNE * TU * VAINCRAS * (BY THIS SIGN YOU OVERCOME) on each side. Made to the very highest standard of the period craftsmen which they emulate, this very pair has been known to fool more than one accomplished expert and surely has been sold as of the period in the past.
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