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Nation : British
Local Price : £8995

Click and use the code >25224 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous & Rare US Civil War General´s Sabre With Its Original Civil War General Officer´s Pattern ´Acorn´ Sword Knot, & Steel Combat Scabbard. Superb Deluxe Etched Blade

Nation : British
Local Price : £8995

Click and use the code >24421 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Rare, Anno Domini 4th Century. Original Roman Legionary´s ´Spartha´ Sword. An Amazing & Rare Historical Sword of The Roman Empire. Almost Identical To Those Discovered In The Nydam Treasure Horde of Nordam Mose in Denmark

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 : British
Local Price : £7995

Click and use the code >22370 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Incredibly Rare ´Damascus´ Presentation Sword, Presented to the German Fuhrer of 1898, An Imperial German, Damascus Steel, Blue & Gilt, Presentation Fuhrer´s Sword. Set With Genuine Rubies and Silver Crossed Cannon

Nation : British
Local Price : £7995

Click and use the code >23230 to search for this item on the dealer website Thousand Year Old Norman Invasion Period Knightly Sword Circa 1066 AD of a Norseman Of Viking Origin. Mounted With Ancestral Blade From 600 AD Thus This sword Is Both 1000 & 1600 years Old

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £7950

Click and use the code >22160 to search for this item on the dealer website Possibly The Finest 17th Cent. French Royal Silver Hunting Short Sword, With Original, Incredibly Rare Scabbard & Belt Mount, From a Royal Collection. With The Rarest Bayonne Form Hilt. Likely Used By The King & His Court For the King&#acute;s Boar or Sta

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7950

Click and use the code >23038 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful, Shinto Period, Handachi Mounted Samurai Katana. Fitted With All Original Edo Mounts. Showing Great Quality, Shibui {Quietly Reserved} And Without Undue Extravagance. An Impressive Sword With Incredible & Elegant Lines & Curvature

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £7775

Click and use the code >24842 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Archaic Chinese Warrior Prince´s Bronze Jian Sword, Overlaid With Gold, Auspicious Metal, Around 2,400 to 2,600 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Chin Dynasty, Including the Period of Sun-Tzu´. Likely of The Kingdom of Yue

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £7750

Click and use the code >21774 to search for this item on the dealer website Singularly Beautiful & Magnificent Presentation Grade 1796-1803 {15th Hussars} British Officer´s Sword, Of The Napoleonic Wars. Used In The Peninsular Campaign, & The War of 100 Days Culminating at Quatre Bras & Waterloo. Museum Quality Example

Nation : German
Local Price : £7500

Fine German Swept Hilt Rapier dating to circa 1600. A fine, imposing and attractive German Swept Hilt Rapier dating to circa 1600. The rapier is a nicely balanced and well forged weapon in original condition with a consistent smooth grey mottled patination all over having never been invasively cleaned. The hilt type is illustrated in many portraits of late 16th / early 17th century date located across Europe including England, Scandinavia and the German States. This indicates that the swept hilt rapier was very popular amongst the social elites in countries across the region at the time. The rapier retains its full length 46.5 inch (118 cm) imposing blade. The overall length is 52.5 inches (133.5 cm). The complex hilt is an elegant example of the armourers' craft formed with attractive flowing curved bars of rounded octagonal section. The hilt is built around the strong quillon block which has short downwardly pointing langets which lie either side of the ricasso. Two straight quillons extend from the block, filed with decorative ribs at the join, and swell gently towards their terminals. To the front the knuckle bow curves upwards to the pommel and has a similarly swollen terminal. Beneath the block two outwardly curved symmetrical finger, or pas d' ane rings, extend downwards and terminate in square pads at the end of the ricasso. The outer guard consists of three ring guards and the inner guard of two circles joined by curved bars. These features on each side are supported by subsidiary bars which converge on the pas d’ane ring terminal pads which are engraved with cross-hatching on the outside. The hilt is further strengthened by two upper side guard bars, which are forged onto the outer edges of the outer and inner guard assemblies, and curve upwards to join the bow just above half way. The multifaceted ovoid pommel has an integral waisted button on top and a grooved flared neck beneath. The original spirally grooved wooden grip tapers slightly towards the pommel and is of oval cross section, laterally bound with thin twisted steel wire, which is further bound with contra-twisted wire ropes depressed into the grooves with the ends secured underneath “Turks Heads” mounted top and bottom woven from steel rope. The gently tapering blade is of fine quality. It is of stiff section intended primarily for thrusting and secondly for cutting. The thickened ricasso has a deep central groove extending from the hilt to the pas d'ane ring terminals on each side. Beyond these the blade broadens with a short external extension of the ricasso, after which a deep central fuller extends along each side for 17.5 inches (44.5 cm). The fullers are stamped with indistinct bladesmith’s identity letters and marks inside. Beyond the fuller terminals a mark resembling an anchor is stamped on each side after which the blade is of flattened diamond section to its tip. A small patch of minor old pitting is present on one of the secondary guard bars attached to the knucklebow as can be seen in the images. Otherwise the rapier is in fine condition. For more information regarding other examples and locations of rapiers, and depictions of rapiers, of this type, see A.V.B. Norman, “The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820”, Arms & Armour Press, 1980, pp. 120 to 140.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code >24723 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful Ancient Samurai Long Sword, A Koto Period Katana Around 500 Years Old Sengoku Period With All Original Edo Period Mounts & Fittings

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code >25722 to search for this item on the dealer website Ancient Koto Period Samurai Sword, Almost 600 Years old, From The Sengoku Jidai. A Handachi Mounted Katana, With Beautiful Deep Red Ishime Urushi Lacquer Saya, Contrasted With Spectacular Green-Blue Silk Tsuka-ito, Set With Hammered Silver Onlaid Mount

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code >25351 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Beautiful & Incredibly Elegant Koto Katana Art Sword Circa 1500, With Very Fine All Original Edo Koshirae, of Finely Decorated Shakudo, Combined With Exceptional Urushi Lacquer Work. Kashira Decorated with &#acute;The Monkey Reaching for the Moon&#ac

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code >24472 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb 15th Century, Ancient, Signed Samurai Sword, From the Famous Sukesada Line of Early Samurai Sword Smiths

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7250

Click and use the code >25539 to search for this item on the dealer website Magnificent and Large Horse Mounted Samurai´s Battle Sword Katana, With A Simply Stunning Shinto Blade In Near Mint Condition for Age. The Mounts Are All Completely Original Edo Period.

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : £7250

Click and use the code >25760 to search for this item on the dealer website Amazing Samurai Long-Sword Katana.Signed, Hizen kuni Dewa no kami Yukihiro Circa 1670 Made For the Nabeshima Clan. Yukihiro Acquired the Title of Dewa Daijo in 1648 & Was Ranked Up to Dewa (No) Kami in 1663. (Governor of Dewa Province)

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £6995

Click and use the code >25277 to search for this item on the dealer website Incredibly Rare French Naval, Sabre D´Officier De Marine Model Prairelle An XII 1804. Officer´s Sword, Most Likely Surrendered or Captured At Trafalgar in 1805. Possibly Even From the Redoutable or Bucentaure

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £6950

Click and use the code >26243 to search for this item on the dealer website Shinto Period, Circa 1650, Samurai Wakazashi, Of Extraordinary Beauty, Encompassing Numerous Contrasting Features. A Multitude Of Traditional Samurai Sword Koshirae Of The Finest Artistic Merit & Combined With A Magnificent Blade

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £6750

Click and use the code >23939 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Stunning 15th Century Sengoku Period Wakizashi Samurai Short Sword Circa 1480 With Shobu Zukuri Form Blade

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : 9,100.00 USD

SPANISH CUP HILT RAPIER C.1650. This fine rapier is distinguished by retaining a considerable original gold overlay. It gives us a glimpse of what most fine weapons would have looked like when they were being used. While most rapiers survive in the white, with bare iron surfaces, each had a surface treatment when produced. Many were blued or browned (russet) but a considerable proportion were gold or silver overlaid which served to protect the hilt as well as enhance them aesthetically. This example is of further interest as it represents the cup-hilt rapier in its most highly developed form, with long elegant thrusting blade and robust grip for the gloved fencer's hand. 44" length blade.

Nation : Indian
Local Price : £9¸000

Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword. Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword\"This is a long curved¸ early antique Mughal Blade and is very rare. It is almost last 17th and early 18th century old sword and belongs to North India (at that time). The Hilt of this sword is called kuftgari hilt and is Silver.

Nation : -
Local Price : £6,450.00

Pair of flintlock Pistols by Winckhler – Munich c 1700. Three stage barrels octagonal then round with muzzle rings blued and rifled cal 13mm. Brass outlined master&#acute;s mark appears above each powder chamber in the form of a standing lion below W between the signature Hanns Winchhler. Curved locks the floral engraved domed lock plates with masks. Adjustable back triggers one spring tired lightly carved walnut stocks with dark horn fore-end caps plus open iron work decoration on the side plates complete with ramrods with horn tips overall length of each pistol 53.5cm. Hans Winckhler is known in Munich between 1680 and 1710. Early pair of pistols in beautiful condition.

Nation : British
Local Price : £6450

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to circa 1730 mounted with an ANDRIA FARARA marked blade. A fine and robust Scottish basket hilted sword dating to circa 1720 to 1740. The sword is a bold and attractive example mounted with a broad double edged blade and is typical of what most collectors of Scottish arms and armour refer to as a “period” piece, in that it is a fully developed basket hilt and dates to the period before the Highland clan structure was dismantled after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. The fully developed basket guard is finely forged into its elegantly rounded profile. The two main frontal guard panels are decorated in traditional style, with vertical and horizontal border lines incised into the exterior surfaces towards the panel edges to form squares. Inside these squares a circle is pierced into the centre, surrounded by pierced flanged hearts at the sides and circles in the corners. The smaller, secondary guard plates to the sides, and the knucklebow plate at the front, are finished with similar features enhanced with decorative parallel lines along the vertical lengths and laterally at the base. The side panels are mounted on decorative merlons which connect the side guard bars and strengthen the guard. All of the panels are symmetrically decorated at the edges with intricate file work consisting of cusps, crescents and merlons. The dome-shaped pommel has a flat ribbed button on top and is decorated with three sets of incised lines, equally spaced apart, the centre line being wider than those on its flanks, which radiate from the button. The upper guard arm terminals of the basket fit into a chiselled groove which extends for the full circumference of the pommel just below its middle to secure the structure. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip is covered with shagreen bound with flat metal strip and mounted with decorative metal ferrules top and bottom. The hilt has a full leather liner covered with red cloth on the outside and stitched with a blue silken hem, most of which is missing. The double edged tapering German-made blade, most likely of Solingen manufacture, is of fine quality lenticular section. It has a ricasso which extends 1.75 inches (4.5 cm) from the hilt which has a narrow fuller cut just inside each blunt edge for the same length. From the end of the ricasso two fullers extend for 5.5 inches (14 cm) along the blade middle. The fullers contain the armourer’s mark ANDRIA FARARA flanked with patterns of small crosses. An elaborate cruciform shape is present just beyond the termination of the fullers on each side. The blade is 33.5 inches (85 cm) long. The blade shoulders sit in a chiselled groove in the cross guard bar underneath the hilt which retains its scrolled wrist guard. The scabbard is of thick leather stitched along the middle on one side. The mounts are missing. However, the evidence of where the suspension clips were once placed shows it is of early form. For similar contemporary swords see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, particularly that shown on page 113, fig F15c for an example in the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen and page 120, fig F16f(WA) for a sword made by Walter Allan of Stirling displayed at Dean Castle. The overall length of the sword is 39.5 inches (100.5 cm) long. The sword is in fine structural shape and undamaged although there is some delamination to one of the front guard panels.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £6450

Click and use the code >25647 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous, Museum Grade Signed, Antique, Samurai O-Tanto, Shinto Period. All Original Edo Fittings, Goto School. Absolutely Impeccable Blade Showing Fine Original Edo Polish & Displaying It&#acute;s Excellent Gunome Hamon. Overall An Incredibly Handsome Sw

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £6350

Click and use the code >24449 to search for this item on the dealer website Absolutely Superb, & Signed, Samurai&#acute;s Large Sunobi-Tanto or Wakazashi Late Koto to Early Shinto Period. Mutsu no Kami Daido School. Carved Horimono Blade With Bonji, of FudÅ

Nation : American
Local Price : £6250

Click and use the code >25317 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning Directoire Period French Blue and Gilt &#acute;Award&#acute; & Imperial Garde Grade Sabre of a General or General Staff Officer, Probably By Boutet Director of Versailles. Napoleon´s Personal Sword Maker

Nation : British
Local Price : £5995

Click and use the code >23138 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful 18th Century French Small-Sword of Parcel Gilt and Blued Steel A Simply Stunning Museum Grade Piece. A Stunning Example of This French Master Craftsman&#acute;s Artistry and Skill in Service in The Royal Court of King Louis XVth

Nation : British
Local Price : £5995

Click and use the code >23162 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful Museum Grade Masterpiece, A Rare 18th Century French Small-Sword of Purest Gold Applied to Lustrous Crafted Silver & Hand Chiselled Steel. As Fine As Anything Comparable in the Royal Collection, or Les Invalides Army Museum in Paris.

Nation : -
Local Price : $5,995.00

European Rondel Dagger, Misericorde, Late 14th C. Designed solely for thrusting against an armored opponent, this dagger is very stoutly constructed of solid steel, with thick unmarked 10 1/4” diamond-section blade with long rectangular ricasso. The guard is forged in two pieces in a cog wheel shape, with a down-turned lobe extension serving as a belt hook. Tapering octagonal grip with cross hatching and decorative turned top, bottom, and central features. The 2” diameter pommel disc is forged in two pieces and features a decorative flower head washer at the blade peen. Never been apart and blade with moderate pitting, the entire piece with a dark gunmetal gray patina. Shows lamination and slight forging flaws. Similar examples illustrated in A Europaische Hieb-und Stichwaffen @ , by Muller, Kolling, and Platow (published 1984), page 174. A very rare untouched piece of medieval history, possibly used at the famous Battle of Agincourt. This style dagger is known as a rondel dagger due to it = s round-shaped guard and pommel, though it can also be classified as a A Misericorde @ . The latter name is a French term derived from the Latin A misericordia @ , meaning A act of mercy @ . The intent of such daggers was to dispatch a seriously wounded knight and end his suffering. Such daggers were known to have been used at the famous Battle of Agincourt in 1415, when a force of English knights, men-at-arms, and longbowmen under the command of Henry V, defeated a much larger force of French knights, men-at-arms, and crossbowmen. Despite the code of chivalry and the value of ransomed prisoners, Henry ordered the killing of many of the prisoners because he saw the French forming for what he feared would be a renewed attack, which could have caused an uprising among the prisoners. When the French fled the field of battle, he ordered the killing to cease. Despite the overwhelming English victory, the result of the battle had little effect on the continuing Hundred Years War, which was ultimately won by the French. Henry returned to England the following month, but the French nobility and military were decimated, with entire noble families being wiped out.

Nation : -
Local Price : $5,995.00

Exquisite Chiseled North European Rapier, ca. 1650. Unique and superbly chiseled iron hilt with separate lower guard featuring down-turned acorn-shaped knob on the obverse side and an upturned hollow heart on the reverse. Partial pas d’ane with long chiseled quillon block and single chiseled acorn-shaped quillon. Single side ring curving upward to join the knuckle bow, which in turn joins the acorn- shaped pommel with large button. Decorated ensuite with chiseled acanthus design in relief. Original grip wrapped with two sizes of twisted copper wire and finished with turks heads top and bottom. Cleaned hollow-ground single-edged 35 3/8″ blade with ridge on the spine and double-edged for the last 8 1/4″; remains of engraved design at the forte. Overall length 42″. Beautiful and unique sword of extraordinary quality, much better in person than photos.

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £5950

Click and use the code >26141 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Napoleonic Wars, British Officer´s Sabre With Captured French ´Trophy´ Mamluk Consular Guard Officer´s Damascus Blade, With An Ancient Egyptian Serpent Goddess Hilt. For an Officer Who Served in The Nile Campaign