Arms, Armour & Militaria

A FINE LONG KATANA WITH A BLACK LACQUER SAYANakago (tang): signed Higo (no) Kami Akamatsu Taro Kaneteru Saku and dated on the reverse Heisei 4 Nen...

A KATANA IN BLACK LACQUERED SAYA Sugata (configuration): shallow shinogi-zukuri (with a raised ridge), tori-zori (even curve) Kitae (forging patte...

A KATANA IN BLACK RIBBED LACQUERED SAYASugata (configuration): shallow tori-zori (even curvature)Hamon (tempering pattern): faint, but gunome (sma...

A KO-GATANASugata (configuration): ubu (unaltered) koshi-zori (low centre of curvature), chu-kissaki (medium point)Hamon (tempering pattern): narr...

A KATANA IN A DARK LACQUERED SAYASugata (configuration): o-suriage (greatly shortened), with bo-hi (double grooves) which are continued into the n...

A KATANA ADAPTED FOR MILITARY USESugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (raised ridge) with koshi-zori (low curvature)Hamon (tempering pattern): a...

A KATANA, SHINTO PERIODSugata (configuration): with a shallow tori-zori (even curve) and bo-hi (groove)Hamon (tempering pattern): irregular midare...

A KATANA IN A BLACK LACQUER SAYASugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (raised ridge line) with chu-kissaki (medium sized point) and shallow tori-...

A SHIN GUNTO, SHOWA PERIODHamon (tempering pattern): shallow sanbon-tsuji (three cedar shaped)Nakago (tang): two mekugi-ana (peg holes) and a Seki...

AN ITO-MAKI-TACHISugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (with a ridge), tori-zori (evenly curved)Hamon (tempering pattern): regular sabontsugi (th...

˜A SHORT IVORY TACHI Sugata (configuration): hira-zukuri (no ridge line) Hamon (tempering pattern): no details available due to condition Koshirae...

˜AN IVORY TACHI WITH RELIGIOUS AND SAMURAI CARVINGS Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (ridged) Hamon (tempering pattern): suguha (straight l...

A WAKIZASHI WITH A MUZORI BLADESugata (configuration): muzori (no curvature)Kitae (forging pattern): condition prevents full appraisal of the jiha...

A SHOBU-ZUKURI WAKIZASHISugata (configuration): shobu-zukuri (simple ridge line), copper habaki (collar) with a breaking wave designHamon (temperi...

A SLIM WAKIZASHI IN SHIRA-SAYAHamon (tempering pattern): appears to be ko-mokume (small wood grain like pattern), but all other details of the for...

A WAKIZASHIHamon (tempering pattern): details obscured by corrosionNakago (tang): mumei (unsigned) with sujikai yasuri (sloping file marks)Koshira...

A JAPANESE ARTILLERY OFFICER~S SWORD, SHOWA PERIODof European naval design with a blade with bo-hi (groove) and an artificially pointed hamon (tem...

A HIRA-ZUKURI TANTO, PROBABLY MUROMACHI PERIODHamon (tempering pattern): obscured by rubbing but may be choji-gunome (clove pattern)Nakago (tang):...

SIX JAPANESE TSUBAof various designs and ages, including mumei (unsigned) copper wakizashi with dragon design; mokko-gata (lobed) shakudo-nanako (...

A CHINESE COMMANDER~S ARROW AND CASE, QING DYNASTYwith flat spatulate iron head, wooden haft, long feather flight (losses), fitted with a contempo...

A CROSSBOW IN THE CHINESE HAN DYNASTY STYLE OF 206-220 B.C., AND THREE FURTHER BOWS, 20TH CENTURYthe first probably by Edward McEwen with black-pa...

EIGHTEEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS, RAJASTHAN, 18TH/19TH CENTURYwith bamboo shafts, including a whistling arrow, with painted bulbous head; three for ga...

A CASED SET OF EIGHTEEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURYeach with conical iron tip, bamboo shaft painted with polychrome bands of flowe...

AN ENGLISH WOODEN QUIVER, MID- 19TH CENTURY, TWELVE ARROWS AND A CASED SET OF TEN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURYthe first of tapering rectangular section, t...

A LONGBOW BY EDWARD MCEWEN AND FOUR FURTHER BOWS, 20TH CENTURYthe first of laminated layers of wood, signed ~McEwen, Wanstead~ above the grip and ...

[AP] A WEST EUROPEAN BRONZE SPEARHEAD, 3000-1500 B.C. AND TEN FURTHER BRONZE WEAPONSin excavated condition, the first with leaf-shaped head formed...

[AP] A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 17TH CENTURYwith double-edged blade swelling to a ~Cobra~s head~ tip, steel hilt formed with a pair of en...

[AP] AN INDIAN SHORTSWORD (SOSUN PATAH), LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURYwith slightly curved single-edged blade of finely watered steel, formed with a rein...

[AP] AN INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 18TH CENTURYwith European broad curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a pair of long slender ful...

[AP] A COORG KNIFE (AYDA KATTI), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AN NEPALESE RAM DAO AND A GLAIVE, 19TH CENTURYthe first with broad hatchet-shaped b...

[AP] TWO INDIAN SHORTSWORDS, 19TH CENTURYeach with broad blade of ayda katti type, the first with chiseled khanda-style hilt extending over the lo...

[AP] TWO INDIAN CRUTCH SWORDS (ZAFAR TAKIEH) FORMED ENTIRELY OF IRON, 19TH CENTURY the first with blade of tapering square-section, threaded at th...

[AP] AN INDIAN THROWING RING (CHAKRAM), A SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPEARHEAD, A MALAYSIAN SHORTSWORD (KRIS) AND TWO INDIAN DAGGERS, 19TH CENTURY the first ...

[AP] AN ARAB SWORD (NIMCHA), AN INDIAN AXE, A DETACHED SWORD BLADE, A SCABBARD FOR A TALWAR AND TWO LANCE SHOES, 19TH CENTURY the first with curve...

˜[AP] AN OTTOMAN SHORTSWORD (YATAGHAN), LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY AND THREE FURTHER OTTOMAN SHORTSWORDS (YATAGHAN), TURKEY AND NORTH AFRICA...

[AP] A RARE OTTOMAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR ARM DEFENCE, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY formed of slightly curved rectangular panels arranged in three tap...

[AP] THE CENTRAL PORTION OF AN INDIAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR SHIRT, 17TH CENTURY formed of rows of large riveted iron rings alternating with rows of so...

[AP] A SOUTH INDIAN DECORATED ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURYformed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate with pointed terminal fi...

[AP] A SOUTH INDIAN DECORATED ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURYformed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate with pointed terminal, e...

[AP] A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURYof broad construction, formed of a faceted tapering gutter-shaped main plate chi...

[AP] TWO SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCES (DASTANA), 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURYof similar designs and size, each formed of a tapering gutter-shaped main pla...

˜A CHINESE SWORD (DAO); A PAIR OF CHINESE SWORDS AND A SCABBARD FOR A DAO, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURYthe first with slightly curved blade double-e...

A CHINESE SWORD (DAO), QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURYwith heavy single-edged blade formed with a pair of long grooves on each face and a ser...

[WA] A RARE SOUTH-WEST CHINESE CUIRASS (PIXIONGJIA), YI OR NUOSU PEOPLE (LOLO), 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYof lacquered hide, formed of a broad top pl...

A BURMESE SWORD (DHA), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY AND A SOCKET BAYONET, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURYthe first with slightly curved single-edged blade,...

A NEPALESE SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER (KUKRI), EARLY 20TH CENTURYwith characteristic curved blade, horn grip inlaid with silver bands, heart-shaped pla...

A HIMALAYAN DAGGER, LATE 19TH CENTURY, BHUTAN OR TIBETwith tapering single-edged blade formed with a series of grooves along the back-edge, charac...

A HIMALAYAN SHORTSWORD, BHUTAN OR TIBET, LATE 19TH CENTURYwith broad single-edged blade formed with a pair of slender fullers along the back-edge ...

˜A FINE SOUTHEAST ASIAN DAGGER (KRIS), BALI, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYwith fine wavy blade of pattern-welded blued steel widening towards the f...

˜THREE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SWORDS (DHA), BURMESE OR THAI, A BURMESE DHA DAGGER, AND TWO CONTINENTAL EPÉES, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYthe first with ...

TWO SOUTHEAST ASIAN DECORATED PARTISANS, 20TH CENTURYof copper alloy, each with sharply tapering terminal blade cast with flowers at the base and ...

A SOUTH EAST ASIAN SMALL CANNON (LANTAKA), 19TH CENTURYwith bronze barrel flaring towards the muzzle and formed with a raised moulding behind, dec...

[WA] AN INDIAN SWORD (FIRANGI), LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURYwith straight fullered blade formed with a long fuller and double-edged towards the point, t...

˜[WA] A RARE DETACHED INDIAN CARVED IVORY HILT FOR A TALWAR, 19TH CENTURYof separate pieces, comprising langets, a pair of quillons with bulbous t...

[AP] A NORTH INDIAN OR AFGHAN DAGGER (PESH KABZ), LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURYwith finely watered steel blade, sharply tapering and of T-secti...

[WP] A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (JAMADHAR KATAR), 16TH/17TH CENTURYin excavated condition, with broad flat blade formed with a sharp ~Cobra~ head tip, ...

[WA] A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (JAMADHAR KATAR), 16TH/17TH CENTURYin excavated condition, with broad flat blade swelling slightly towards the tip, iro...

[WP] AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), LATE 17TH CENTURYwith fullered blade tapering towards the point, iron hilt extending over the forte and chiselled w...

‡ AN INDIAN STAFF WEAPON (BHUJ), LATE 19TH CENTURYwith broad blade formed with a clipped-back point, decorated in silver with a panel of expanded ...

AN INDO-PERSIAN SPIKED MACE, LATE 19TH CENTURYwith near spherical head decorated with foliage and wavy designs in soft metal, studded with numerou...