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Nation : British
Local Price : £38995

Click and use the code >22605 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous Museum Grade Sword 18th Century Damascus Wootz Steel, Mohammed´s Ladder Pattern, & Stunning Solid Silver & Enamel Makara Hilt, The ´Palace of the Nawab of Lucknow&#acute;. Probably One of The Most Beautiful & Finest Indian Princely Ro

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £36950

Click and use the code >23375 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Incredible & Finest Quality King George IIIrd Napoleonic Wars Scottish Presentation Sword, Presented In The Months Following the Battle of Trafalgar The Regiment of Midlothian Infantry, East Midlothian, By the Officer´s & Men of The New Battle

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £34995

Click and use the code >24846 to search for this item on the dealer website We Speculate That This 2400 Year Old Sword Was Once The Sword of an Ancient Chinese King of Yueh, One Of the Nine Kings of Yueh, As It Is So Similar To The Sword of Goujian, King of Yueh, Now In The Hubei Museum in China, As to Be Remarkable

Nation : German
Local Price : 35000.00 USD

Very Important C 1600 Saxon Rapier From The Army Of Peter Iii Of Russia!. PLEASE READ FRAMED DESCRIPTION OF THIS AMAZING RAPIER! This great, great rarity is said to have descended in German family since the 19th century. It was professionally cleaned and the grip re-wrapped in the late 20th century. Printed description along with several 8.5” x 11” color prints of Peter III accompany the rapier. Very serious inquiries only. Please state full name and location if you would like a response.

Nation : -
Local Price : £23,950.00

Flintlock Seven Barrelled Goose Rifle by Henry Nock. Flintlock Seven Barrelled Goose Rifle by Henry Nock 65 bore. With twist sighted barrels cut with, silver fore-sight and fixed rear with two additional pop up, shaped breech block with gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved grooved tang, the lock with rainproof pan and engraved H Nock. Figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip please note small age crack between lock and trigger guard please see image, engraved iron mounts, brass-tipped steel ramrod, together with its wooden-handled iron mould for fourteen balls.

Nation : British
Local Price : £18750

Click and use the code >24770 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful Ancient Original Viking Broadsword, From The Era Of The Norsemen&#acute;s Raids in Northern France, Around 1150 Years Ago & Their Raids Upon England & Ireland Up To The 11th Century.

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: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : ?
Local Price : $16995.00

Exceptional Gilded Pappenheimer Rapier, ca. 1630.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £16500

Click and use the code >24085 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful, Koto, Samurai´s Paired Swords Daisho, 425-525 Years Old. Katana and Chisa Katana. Edo Period Koshirae, Ume ´Maeda´ å

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 : ?
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.

Nation : British
Local Price : £12950

Click and use the code >23150 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare, Original, Romanov, Russian Cossack Solid Silver Shashka & Silver Cossack Whip With Concealed Dagger, ´The Imperial Russian Honour Sword & Nagaika Awards of Gallantry´ Awarded by The Czar The Russian Version of the British Victoria C

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £12750

Click and use the code >23374 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Fabulous Napoleonic Wars ´Battle of Austerlitz´ Surrendered Sword Of An Austrian Marshal. An Austrian Marshal´s Grade Sword. Potentially of Lieutenant Field Marshal Franz von Weyrother. Formerly Looted by Goering In WW2 From Its F

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £11995

Click and use the code >23519 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous Museum Grade Samurai Daimyo´s Art-Sword. From The Koto Era. A Samurai Wakizashi Sword By Master Tadamitsu With Rare Gaku-mei Nakago. Blade, Circa 1440-1460. Mino Goto Koshirae, With Deep Red Ishime Lacquer Saya & Black Silk Binding

Nation : American
Local Price : £11275

Click and use the code >23521 to search for this item on the dealer website Incredibly Rare, Superb 3rd to 2nd Century B.C. Falcata {Machaira Sword} From the Invasion of Rome Era of the Punic Wars, by The Great General Hannibal. It Is Also It Is The Very Same Design of Sword Used by Alexander The Great & His Generals

Nation : British
Local Price : £11275

Click and use the code >22938 to search for this item on the dealer website Museum Quality Original & Ancient, Crusades Period, King Edward Ist Medieval Knights Sword, 13th century. Used During The Time of Edward Longshanks, William Wallace and Robert The Bruce, Used By Both English & Scottish Knights During That Historic Era

Nation : British
Local Price : £11250

Click and use the code >23516 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Imperial Roman Gladius, A Legionary´s Sword, 1st Century, Almost 2000 Years Old. Made And Used During The Reigns in Imperial Rome of the Emperors, Augustus, Claudius, Tiberius, Caligula & Nero

Nation : German
Local Price : £10995

Click and use the code >24623 to search for this item on the dealer website Exceptional 1700 to 1600 Year Old Spartha Sword of A Warrior of the Roman Empire´s Invasions by the Huns and Visigoths. A Hun or Visigoth Horseman´s Sword Spartha With Its Orinally Mounted &#acute;Lifstein&#acute;, the Magical Life-Stone, and

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £10950

Click and use the code >25268 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning,1600´s ´Senshu Banzai´ Antique Edo Samurai Katana With Signed Blade, Kashu ju Darani Tachibana Katsukuni Saku, Katsukuni of the Tachibana Clan, the Darani School of Smiths, Made This {Sword} in Kashu Province, Incredible Hamon o

Nation : British
Local Price : £10925

Click and use the code >22937 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous, Original, High Middle Ages, Museum Piece. A 13th Century Medieval Knightly Sword of the Henry IIIrd and Simon de Montfort Period, Made And Used By a Knight of The IInd Baron´s War Era, the Battle of Lewes in 1264. Oakshott Typology Type XI

Nation : British
Local Price : $9995.00

Rare British Flintlock Congreve Rocket Launcher, Early 19th C. Deacquisitioned from the Tower of London Museum, where it once hung above the entryway, these launchers were used primarily by the Royal Marine Artillery on land. The Congreve rocket was a form of rocket artillery designed by British inventor William Congreve and inspired by the rockets of the Tipu Sultan of Mysore, who used them against the British East India Company in the Anglo-Mysore Wars. Congreve rockets were first used in 1806 aboard ship in the bombardment of Boulogne. They initially had a rocket body made of stiff paper, which was later changed to sheet iron. The propulsion used the same ingredients as gunpowder, but the mixture varied according to the size of the rocket. The warheads had side-mounted brackets which were used to attach wooden sticks for stabilization in flight (same principal as modern bottle rockets), the size of which varied according to the size of rocket. Their accuracy was generally poor, with physical effects on the battlefield usually very limited, however, they had a significant psychological effect on civilians and troops on the receiving end. They were used during the Napoleonic Wars and in America during the War of 1812, where its use at Fort McHenry in 1814 inspired the fifth line of the first verse of the US National Anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air”. The launcher offered here is reported to be one of 100 produced and features a 15 1/4” long rocket tube of 2” – 2 1/4” diameter (oval rather than round to accommodate the rocket’s attached stick), with hand-painted broad arrow, “G.R.” and the date “1809”; and attached 8 3/4” bayonet of triangular section. The rocket tube is attached to a smaller diameter hollow, tapering iron tube, with attached conical end cap, to allow for the stick of the rocket. This also serves as a shaft to be held by the user. On the side of the rocket tube is a flintlock mechanism, the lockplate with double line border; stamped with broad arrow and crowned “GR” forward of the cock, and “TOWER” behind. The vent hole is especially large and has an attached tube on the inside of the rocket tube to direct the charge to the base of the rocket and also serves to hold the rocket in place. The flintlock mechanism is activated by a long rod enclosed in a protective housing riveted to the body of the launcher and attached to a trigger of traditional form. A sleeve riveted to the tube enclosing the activation rod contains an original vent pick, which may also have been used to pierce the base of the rocket to expose the powder before firing. A large oval sheet iron flash guard is attached forward of the trigger to protect the user. Mechanism functions normally and the launcher is totally complete, retaining its original black paint. Untouched since its period of use, showing age and light scattered rust and pitting. Weighing only 8 pounds (3.6 kg), these launchers could be carried on foot or horseback and access locations inaccessible by traditional artillery. Overall length 99 1/4” (252 cm). A similar launcher, with fewer features and markings, was offered at auction in 2018 with an estimate of $15,000- $20,000. Extremely rare, with exceptional provenance!

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £9995

Click and use the code >23241 to search for this item on the dealer website Original 900 Year Old Templar Crusader Knights era &#acute;Sword of War&#acute;. A Broadsword With Brazil Nut Pommel. From the Period Immediately Following the Norman Conquest & As Used By the Templar Knights To Reclaim The Holy Land.

Nation : British
Local Price : £9,995.00

Ferguson Rifled Officers Holster Flintlock Pistol by Knubley, Very Rare. SN 9154. A Very Rare Ferguson Rifled Officers Holster Flintlock Pistol by Knubley. 19&157;overall, 12 &194;&188;&157; sighted octagonal 22 bore barrel with 8 grooves, signed in gold at the breech ´Knubley London´, with London Gunmakers proofs. Gold lined touch hole, tang engraved with military trophies, Ferguson breech with fast twist rising screw plug with grease cavity, bevelled lock signed ´Knubley´, spoon shaped pan, swan necked cock, roller on frizzen spring. Half stocked in walnut with bag shaped chequered butt, cut for shoulder stock, steel mounts comprising butt cap with flower engraving, engraved trigger guard/ breech plug, decorated with a martial trophy on the bow. Horn fore end with silver key plates, turned ramrod pipes and horn tipped wooden ramrod.&194;&160; Circa 1790.&194;&160; Ferguson action pistols are very uncommon, in quite good condition. Isaac de la Chaumette invented this form of breech-loading action in 1700 and patented it in England in 1721. Captain Patrick Ferguson patented his improved version of the La Chaumette system in 1776. He used a quick thread on the breech plug which enabled it to be lowered by one turn of the trigger guard, already used by Bidet in London in the 1720s, but he improved the action to prevent jamming after a few rounds mainly by cutting a recess into the plug for grease and vertical grooves across the screw threads.Ferguson demonstrated his rifle most successfully to the Board of Ordnance and to the King, whom he told that he could fire seven shots in a minute although ’he would not undertake in that time to knock down above five of His Majesty’s enemies’. Initially two rifles were made by Durs Egg, followed by the production of one hundred, which a company of Volunteer riflemen were trained to use. Under Ferguson’s leadership the riflemen fought with distinction in the American War of Independence at the battle of Brandywine Creek in 1777, but Ferguson was badly wounded, and Sir William Howe, said to have been insulted because Ferguson’s corps was raised without his knowledge, disbanded it, returning the men to their units. For the next two years Ferguson led raids with small bodies of troops in the Jerseys and the South and fought under Tarleton. He was killed at the battle of King’s Mountain, in North Carolina, on 7 October 1780, the only British officer with over a thousand loyal Americans John Knubley&194;&160;Gunmaker, Otley, Yorkshire, 1771. Sword Cutler & Gunmaker, 11 Charing Cross, 1786-93; 7 Charing Cross, 1794. Gunmaker to Prince of Wales, Duke of Clarence and Prince Edward. Contractor to Ordnance (canon locks, trade muskets, pistols and broadswords), 1790-4. Business taken over by Samuel Brunn, continued under Knubley name until 1797. Succeeded by John Mallett.&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;&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 : British
Local Price : £9995

Click and use the code >21918 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Incredibly Rare ´Damascus´ Presentation Sword, An Imperial German, Damascus Steel and Gold, Sword Presented by One of Germany&#acute;s Most Powerful and Influential Families in 1887

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £9995

Click and use the code >19377 to search for this item on the dealer website Superlative and Beautiful Koto Katana Circa 1500, A Museum Quality Ancient Sword, Sengoku Era, with Stunning Original, Edo Period, Soten School Mounts of Shakudo & Gold, &156;Koushi Seiyu Zu&157; Tsuba

Nation : British
Local Price : £9750

Click and use the code >23517 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare & Superb, Original, Imperial Roman Legionary´s & Cavalryman´s Spatha Long Sword, Late 3rd Century Over 1700 Years Old. The Very Form Of Sword As Our Tribune&#acute;s Ring Owner Would Use.

Nation : British
Local Price : £9500

Click and use the code >21508 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful, Original, German ´Zweihander´ Great Sword, 16th Century. Probably The Most Impressive And Largest Sword Ever Used in Historic Warfare. Following the Form of Sword Made Famous By The Scots in The Time Of Sir William Wallace

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £9450

Click and use the code >25215 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning and Impressively Powerful Koto Katana, Circa 1500. With All Original Edo Period Koshirae Mountings. A Fabulous Sword of Likely a Seieibushi {the Highest Ranked Elite Samurai} Traditionally the Highest Rank of Elite Samurai

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £9450

Click and use the code >24866 to search for this item on the dealer website Singularly Fabulous Ancient Koto Period 15th Century Katana Circa 1480. Very Likely Formerly a Nodachi Great Sword. Officially Shortened by Bakufu Edict To Katana Length in 1617. With Stunning Heianjo School Tsuba