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Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5950

Click and use the code >26191 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb, Ancestral, 600 Year Old Signed Blade, Kyu Gunto Mounted Sword For An Officer In Sino Japanese War, The Boxer Rebellion, In China, The Russo-Japanese War & Further Used In WW1 and WW2 Usually By Very Senior Ranking Samurai Family Officer

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5950

Click and use the code >25637 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Wonderful Edo Period Samurai Tanto Museum Quality Art-Sword Decorated To The Highest Artistic Standard With Insects, in Carving, Iroe, Taka-zÅ

Nation : British
Local Price : £5900

Click and use the code >25207 to search for this item on the dealer website Sublime Napoleonic Ist Empire French Superior Officer&#acute;s Blue & Gilt Officer&#acute;s Sword in the Mameluke Style, With Finest Deluxe Grade Chiselled Decor. We Always Try Our Utmost To Offer The Finest or Most Intriguing Pieces We Can From History

Nation : Hungarian
Local Price : 7995.00 USD

Ex Rare Mid 18th Century Hungarian Horseman’s Saber With Pistol Grip!. Here is a great rarity in outstanding condition. This great, great massive Hungarian saber dates to circa 1750. It retains its original wood covered with leather scabbard add its pistol grip shaped iron grip with original fish skin covering! MASSIVE BUTCHER CLEAVER BLADE WITH LARGE RELIGIOUS ENGRAVINGS! See photos. Blade is just over 2” wide x 30” long. Blade retains much of its original luster with only some very small areas of pitting and darkening. Grip retains all original fish skin covering and iron mounted scabbard retains all original leather covering! MUSEUM QUALITY! (old description tag and hanging rope included) We bought this rare saber from a Belgium collection over 20 years ago and paid 12k for it at that time! Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Check out our other listings for more great antique blades! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5750

Click and use the code >26014 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Stunning Ancestral Bladed WW2 Officer´s Sword With a Blade Circa 1665, Signed, Yamashiro Koku Jyu Minamoto Tsunahiro (å±±å&159;

Nation : British
Local Price : £5750

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to the early 18th century mounted with an “ANDRIA FERARA” marked blade. A fine quality Scottish basket hilted sword dating to circa 1710 to 1730 in fine original condition. The fully developed hilt is well forged from finely rounded thick structural bars and pierced plates. The blade was most likely made in Solingen and is boldly struck with armourers’ marks. The fully developed basket guard is finely forged into an elegantly contoured profile. The two main frontal guard panels are decorated in traditional style, with bold vertical and horizontal border lines filed into the exterior surfaces towards the panel edges to form squares. Inside these squares a circle is pierced into the centre enhanced with filed lines to create a saltire shape. The panels are further decorated with four pierced flanged heart shapes which surround the centre circles. Four further circles are pierced into each corner of the panels. The smaller, secondary guard plates to the sides, and the knuckle bow at the front, are finished in similar style. The edges of all the guard plates are decoratively fretted with cusps, merlons and triangles. The cone-shaped pommel has a pronounced waisted button on top and is decorated with three sets of incised triple grooves, equally spaced apart, which radiate from the button, the middle groove being wider and more pronounced than those on its flanks in each case, similar in style to those which decorate the front panel edges and the middles of the secondary guard panels. The pommel decoration is further enhanced with three crescents filed in similar line style which bisect the radiating lines at the apex in each case. . 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 blade shoulders are secured in a chiselled groove in the cross guard bar underneath the hilt which retains its scrolled wrist guard. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip retains its original shagreen cover. The wire binding once fitted into the groove is now lost. The hilt retains its red woolen fringe fitted beneath the pommel and its thick leather liner at the base of the grip. The tapering blade is of lenticular section and just over 32.5 inches (83 cm) long and of fine quality. It has a ricasso 1.5 inches long (4 cm) which has downwardly tapering fullers applied just inside each blunt edge. A shallow central fuller extends from the hilt along the blade for 7 inches (18 cm) where it tapers out. Inside the fuller on one side “ANDRIA” is incised and “FERARA” on the other. The name refers to the legendary late 16th century Italian blade maker that exported blades to Britain. The mark is often found on Scottish swords dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It was used as a mark of quality by German blade makers. This blade was probably made in the late 17th century in Solingen. The marks in the fullers are enhanced by further thumbnail and dot patterns. Just beyond each fuller terminal a stylised cross with the letter “S” on each side is applied. The blade was originally made as a double edged “broadsword” blade. During its working life the back edge has been filed blunt to create a “backsword” blade. This could have been done for a number of reasons. The front edge may have received a lot of use in a particular situation and the nicks have been filed out then the blade reversed in the hilt. Also, by the mid 18th century, backsword blades were becoming more fashionable and in some instances older broadsword blades were filed back and converted to suit the trend. For a similar hilt see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, page 115, fig F15i, for a sword in a private American collection. The overall length of the sword is 38.25 inches (97 cm). The sword is in fine structural shape and in original condition. The hilt retains a rich patination whilst the blade shows sparse mottled black age related patching in places. Underneath the hilt the bases of the merlons situated at the bottom of each side guard panel are missing their heart shaped tips. This slight damage is almost certainly due to use where heavy blows from opponents’ swords have cut into the merlons. Otherwise the hilt has no further damage or repairs and retains its original pleasing shape.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5650

Late 19th century Scottish Dirk for an Officer in the Gordon Highlanders by R&HB Kirkwood of Edinburgh. An exceptional Scottish Military Dirk made for an officer in the Gordon Highlanders in the late 19th century by the goldsmiths R&HB Kirkwood based at 65 & 66 Thistle Street in Edinburgh. The dirk retains its bi-knife and fork which together are housed in the original case with the partner sgian dubh. The mounts are of unhallmarked silver. The grips of the dirk, bi-knife, fork and sgian dubh are fashioned from blackened hardwood carved with a pattern of basketweave with studs mounted at the intersections of the weave. The raised ornate pommels are each mounted with a finely cut Citrine with consistent orange coloured backing inside decorative ferrules featuring bands of thistles and foliage. The pommels are suspended above the grips in typical dirk style for the Gordon Highlanders with an arrangement of silver posts separated by oak leaves. The dirk grip base mount is decorated with thistles and foliage. The cone shaped grip bases of the bi-knife and fork are plain and mounted with blued sprung clips on either side to secure the grips to the scabbard pocket tops. The leaf shaped dirk blade is 11.75 inches (30 cm) long and has a scalloped back edge under which a deep fuller extends from the grip base towards the tip and terminates just before the scallop line ends, after which the blade becomes double edged to the tip. A wider fuller extends from the hilt along the middle of the blade for the same length. The base to the dirk grip fits snugly over the scabbard mouthpiece. The bi-knife blade is also single-edged and has a scalloped blunt back edge of smaller dimensions compared to the dirk blade. The dirk is housed in a wooden scabbard covered with black leather and with silver mounts. The throat mount to the front is decorated with a Cross of St Andrew onto which at the base is a platform of thistles. A semi-circular arch above is applied with the name of the regiment and beneath this a figure of the Sphynx with “EGYPT” beneath, and below, a Tiger with “INDIA” beneath. The back of the throat mount has a carrying strap bar with the name of the maker in raised relief inside a rectangular shield beneath. Further along the scabbard the pocket throat mounts for the by-knife and by-fork, plus the chape, are decorated to the front with a thistle motif and at the back each mount is stamped individually with a thistle stamp. The overall length is 17.25 inches (just under 44 cm) overall. The double-hinged black leather covered wooden storage box is in fine condition. The lid opens and closes effectively to be secured with hinged clips. The box is fitted with a padded blue silken liner fixed into the into the base of the compartment and into the lid which also has the embossed name of the maker. The sgian dubh is similarly stamped with the maker’s details at the back of the throat mount. The Gordon Highlanders was one of the most famous regiments in the British Army. It was formed in 1881 as the county regiment of Aberdeen, Banffshire and Shetland. In the 1880s the regiment fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War then in India in the 1890s. In 1899 the regiment was sent to fight in the Boer War. Thereafter the regiment fought with distinction in all major conflicts where the British Army was involved. The dirk was first presented to the open market by the descendants of the officer that owned the dirk. This was Stewart Gregor Murray. His military biography is detailed on a old note written in black ink stored inside the case (see the last photo below). He joined the Second Battalion in 1884 and thereafter was posted to Malta (3 years), Ceylon (3 years) and India (4 years). In India Murray was involved in the storming of the Malakand Pass and in the Relief of Chitral. He returned to the UK in 1895 and was appointed to the role of Adjutant for the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. He was promoted to Captain in 1895 then Major in 1903. Murray resigned his commission in 1904 after 20 years service. Condition: The condition of the dirk is very fine with minor wear as can in be seen in the photos. The pommel stones are in excellent original condition with no cracks, chips or interference to the mount housings. One stud is missing from the front of the main dirk haunch base and two from the upper part of the grip of the fork. The sgian dubh is in fine condition with some mottling to the blade. The storage box is in a fine state of preservation. The steel dirk blade retains its polished finished with minor light stains in a few places.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

Household Cavalry Officers Officers Sword c 1805. Household Cavalry Officers Officers Sword although referred to as 1814 model this example is slightly different to the regulation pattern. This actual sword is detailed in the book, The British Cavalry Sword 1788 “ 1912 by Richard Dellar page 202 plate 20.12.The description is as follows: A sword with a similar in detail to the Prussian Cuirassier Officers Model 1797 sword but with a central device of the British Royal Crest instead of the Prussian eagle. This type of hilt is thought to date from around 1805. The sword is in very good condition no damage to the basket and the bound leather grip shows slight wear, it is complete with brass scabbard with two narrow slots covered with fish skin note lower ring missing. Overall length 103cm the blade 88.5cm

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 7,800.00 USD

FINE ITALIAN BROADSWORD C.1650. This sword draws upon two closely related groups for form. Its finely embossed and chiseled guard with its central medallion of a classical figure is a variation of the sail form guards used on Maine gauches, Italian rapiers and broad swords. Those swords, are generally from a larger group of crab claw hilted swords which includes examples with and without the sail form guard. The form of its quillons places this sword in that group. The vast majority in the group are plain or modestly embellished for use by foot or mounted troops. This example, distinguished by the quality, and theme of its decoration, was made for an officer or member of an elite guard group. It is closely related to an example in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, #XV-178. 32 1/4" length blade.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >26010 to search for this item on the dealer website This Is A Truly Fabulous Ancestral Bladed WW2 Officer´s Katana With A Rare Shinto Blade, Circa 1615, Signed Hizen no Kuni Ju Nin {Suriage, Tadayoshi} è

Nation : British
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >23637 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Rare WW1 German Airship Bataillon ´Luftschiffer´ Regt. Nr.1 Officer&#acute;s Sword, of the Elite Imperial German Kaiser´s Zeppelin and Airship Guarde Infantry, Only The Second We Have Seen in 30 Years

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : 7500.00 USD

Dutch Voc Silver Hilted Officer's Saber With Scabbard Dated 1771!. A very rare VOC, Dutch East India Company, officers saber with deep blade marks of the VOC, Amsterdam and dated 1771 both sides! Exceptional early saber with full scabbard and silver mounts (scabbard age shrunken and cracked in 2 beneath mid mound, but displays perfectly.) See photos. Blade is about 29” long. The silver hilt has no cracks or repairs, just a little age deformation. It can use a better cleaning. Grip and grip wire is completely intact and grip has some age cracking. This great sword most probably belonged to a VOC captain or admiral. Original silver hilted Dutch VOC swords are very seldom, if ever, encountered! Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out our other listings for more great swords, arms and armor! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : British
Local Price : £5375

Click and use the code >20427 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous, Historical, And Important Scottish Basket Hilted Broadsword of a Distinguished Hero of the 79th Foot in the Crimean War & Subsequently Elevated, Due to His Gallantry, to a Position Within the Queen&#acute;s Bodyguard of H.M Queen Victoria

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £5350

Click and use the code >23420 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Original 12th Century Crusader Knights Templar Medieval Knight´s Dagger, A Shortened Knightly Sword, with Crucifix Hilt. The Blade Bears The Remains of a Templar Cross, Inlaid, in Gold Alloy Latten, Upon One Blade Face Below The Hilt

Nation : British
Local Price : £5250

English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. A fine English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century and the English Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate periods. The hilt of this sword is of typical form consisting of a broad saucer-shaped guard plate from which three main curved flattened guard bars taper upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel. The sword is notable because of its robust build, fine condition and the higher than average quality of the chiselled decoration. The convex surface of the guard plate is covered with the finely executed busts of eight men, four located either side of the blade. Two, opposite each other, are wigged figures, probably judges. The others have a more grotesque appearance. The remaining spaces are filled with panels of delicate foliage and fine swirling tendrils. The pommel is decorated in the same foliate style. Two downward facing bars emanate from each side of the knuckle bow towards its middle and join the base of each side guard bar to add strength to the structure. The base of each side guard bar is strengthened with a fishtail or merlon terminal which joins the bars to the dish. The downwardly curled ribbed wrist guard strengthens the rear edge of the plate. The guard bars are decorated with chiselled lines. The pommel is globular in shape and has an integral button on top and a pronounced flared neck beneath. The grip is wrapped with a leather binding which covers the original grip covering of surface mounted wire. The base sits on an iron flanged plug mounted onto the inside of the guard plate from which two langets extend through the tang aperture to flank the blade either side for a short distance below the hilt. The single-edged blade has a pronounced fullered ricasso. A broad shallow fuller runs from the hilt underneath the blunt spine of the blade and terminates a short distance from the tip after which the blade is double edged. A second shorter fuller of similar width opposite the first runs each side for the length of the ricasso after which the main cutting edge of the blade begins. An unknown Blade Maker's stamp is applied on each side within the fuller as is an orb and cross mark a short distance away. The blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany. Huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period to fulfil demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is 33.75 inches long (86 cm) and overall the sword measures 40 inches (101.5 cm) long. Stuart C Mowbray in “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, dedicates a section to Mortuary Swords in pages 178 to 225, as does Cyril Mazansky, in “British Basket Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280. The similarities between the engraved patterns on the hilts of the swords illustrated in these books and our sword, although they are all somewhat different, shows that the quality of chiselling and engraving present on our sword is of superior quality compared to most other than those known to have been commissioned for nobility of one form or another. This sword is of a style which does not adopt the secondary rear guard bars which appear on some mortuary swords which extend downwards from the side guard bars to fix on the guard plate nearer to the wrist guard edge. The robust and broad expanse of the guard of this sword dispenses with the need as can be seen in the examples present in Mowbray and Mazansky.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5250

Click and use the code >25315 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Fine Napoleonic, Ist Empire, General Staff Officer´s Sabre. Three Bar Hilt with Deluxe Imperial General Staff Officer´s Scabbard. Another Museum Grade Historical Piece We Are Privileged To Offer

Nation : British
Local Price : £5250

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to circa 1725 to1740 mounted with an “ANDRIA FERARA” marked blade. A fine and robust Scottish basket hilted sword dating to the period preceding the last Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The sword is a fine example of the Scottish armourers’ craft, the hilt being forged from finely rounded structural bars and pierced plates. The aperture of the basket guard is wider on one side showing that the guard was deliberately forged for a right handed user. The single edged thickly forged blade is a fine Solingen made example with a single fuller running underneath the spine. The fully developed basket guard is finely forged into an elegantly contoured 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, The panels are further decorated with four pierced triangular arrowhead shapes which surround the centre circles supported by two pierced circles at the base of each. Further circles are pierced into each corner of the squares. The smaller, secondary guard plates to the sides, and the knuckle bow at the front, are finished in similar style. The edges of all the guard plates are skillfully symmetrically fretted with cusps, merlons and triangles. The cone-shaped pommel has a waisted button on top and is decorated with three sets of incised triple grooves, equally spaced apart, which radiate from the button, the middle groove being wider and more pronounced than those on its flanks in each case. 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 blade shoulders are secured in a chiselled groove in the cross guard bar underneath the hilt which retains its scrolled wrist guard. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip retains its original shagreen cover and iron ferrule at the top. Originally the grip was bound with a wire wrap inside the groove which is now missing. The hilt also retains its thick leather liner at the base of the grip. The tapering single edged blade is 32.75 inches (83.5 cm) long and of fine quality. A bold fuller runs underneath the spine from the hilt and terminates 8 inches (20 cm) from the rounded tip after which the blade is double edged. The armourers’ mark “ANDRIA FERARA” is stamped into the fuller near the hilt embellished with cross marks and an incised floret beneath the fuller on one side. The blade was most likely made in Solingen. For similar styles of hilt see “Poetry in Steel The Earliest Swords of Walter Allan of Stirling”, by the Baron of Earlshall, London Park Lane Arms Fair, page 129 to 138, Spring 2018, Apollo Publishing. There are strong resemblances between this hilt and those produced in Stirling by both John and Walter Allan during this period, and particularly that shown on page 137 made by John Allan, figs 9 and 10, See also Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, page 102, fig F5c, for a sword in Blair Castle in Perthshire, and page 113, fig F15c for a sword in the Marischal College in Aberdeen, although the pommel has been replaced on this sword, and page 115, fig F15i, for a sword in a private American collection. The overall length of the sword is 38.5 inches (98 cm) long. The sword is in fine structural shape without repairs or damage apart from slight damage to the wrist guard. There are evenly spread light patches of blackened aging overall.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5000

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to circa 1730-1740. A fine robust Scottish basket hilted sword dating to the period preceding the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The sword is a fine example of the Scottish armourers’ craft, the hilt being forged from thick structural rounded bars and plates. The aesthetic appeal of the hilt is apparent when viewed from the front revealing the symmetry of the panels and deliberate nature of the construction. The single edged blade is a finely forged example with a double fuller most likely of Solingen manufacture The fully developed basket guard is finely forged into an elegantly contoured profile. The two main frontal guard panels are decorated in traditional style, with vertical and horizontal parallel border lines incised into the exterior surfaces towards the panel edges to form squares. Inside these squares a circle is pierced into the centre, filed on the outside to create saltire shapes. The panels are further decorated with four pierced triangular arrowhead shapes which surround the saltires supported by two pierced circles at the base of each. Further circles are pierced into each corner of the squares. The smaller, secondary guard plates to the sides, are finished in similar style. The knucklebow plate is decorated with lines but not pierced in the middle leaving a solid panel. This blank space was normally reserved for an inscription or crest but in this instance has been left blank. The dome-shaped pommel has a waisted button on top and is decorated with four pairs of incised double lines, equally spaced apart, 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 blade shoulders are secured in a chiselled groove in the cross guard bar underneath the hilt which retains its scrolled wrist guard. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip retains its original shagreen cover together with its brass wire binding. The hilt also retains its full leather liner covered with red cloth on the outside and stitched with a blue silken hem, much of which remains. The tapering single edged blade is of fine quality. It has a ricasso which extends 1.5 inches (4.0 cm) from the hilt. A bold fuller runs underneath the spine from the hilt and terminates 7 inches (18 cm) from the rounded tip after which the blade is double edged. A second fuller commences 7.5 from the hilt and runs underneath the first almost to the tip. The blade is 32 inches (81.5 cm) long. For similar styles of hilt see “Poetry in Steel The Earliest Swords of Walter Allan of Stirling”, by the Baron of Earlshall, London Park Lane Arms Fair, page 129 to 138, Spring 2018, Apollo Publishing. There are strong resemblances between this hilt and those produced in Stirling by both John and Walter Allan during this period, particularly that shown on page 137, figs 11 and 12, which is a robust hilt of similar profile lacking fretted edges to the guard panels. See also Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, page 106, fig F12, for a sword in a private American collection and pages 115, fig F15h, and page 116, fig F16, for swords in the Marischal College in Aberdeen, all of which have plain edges to the guard panels. The overall length of the sword is 37.75 inches (96 cm) long. The sword is in fine structural shape without repairs or damage and in blackened russet condition overall.

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £4995

Click and use the code >25749 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful Samurai Sword Wakazashi Circa 1600 Mounted with a Fully Matching Original Edo Suite of Kiri æ¡, The Japanese Empress Tree Design Mounts of Very High Quality, In Exceptional Overall Condition

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >23481 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Beautiful Original Edo Period Shinto Samurai Wakizashi by Echizen ju Kozuke no Kami Fujiwara Kanesada, A Sword Maker Deemed SaijÅ

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >24340 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Handsome Shinto O-Tanto, Around 300 years Old Circa 1720 With a Most Impressive and Beautiful Large Blade Used As A Powerful Close-Combat Small Sword and Suitable as a Post Combat ´Head Cutter´

Nation : British
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >23559 to search for this item on the dealer website Personalised & Named Naval Sword of an 1804 Naval Hero Commodore of a British East Indiaman Fleet & His Original Framed Portrait

Nation : British
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >21852 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb & Very Rare Original Grouping, 5th to 7th Century Roman & Goth Period ´Ceremonially Folded´ Sword, From a Pagan Ritual, A Warrior or Legionary´s Spartha Sword, and War Shield Mounts

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >24380 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Stunning Edo Period Mighty Samurai Armour and Helmet Piercer Tanto, Around 250 Years Old. An Absolute Beautiful Example of Samurai Sword Artistry & Skill

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24556 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful 500 Year Old Koto Period Samurai ´Dragon´ Wakizashi Samurai Short Sword, Another Absolute Beauty From Our Remarkable Collection of Samurai Museum Pieces

Nation : British
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >21865 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning, Historical, Napoleonic War&#acute;s Period, 1796 Pattern Officer´s Combat Sword of William A. Cuninghame, of the 95th

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24840 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Archaic Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Jian Sword, Engraved with Seal Script, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >26201 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous, Samurai Late Koto To Shinto Period Wakazashi Sword In Very Fine, All Original, Edo Period Handachi Koshirae. With Original Urushi Ishime Lacquer Saya In Chitosemidori, A Thousand Year Green. Samurai War Pony Menuki. With A Remarkable Blade

Nation : British
Local Price : £4,750.00

Georgian 1796 Pattern Lifeguard Disk-Hilt.... An extremely rare 1796 pattern, heavy cavalry 'Disk-Hilt' sword of the Life Guards. A large geometrically pierced, slightly dished guard with original

Nation : British
Local Price : £4750

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to circa 1730-1740. A fine Scottish basket hilted sword dating to the second quarter of the 18th century. The sword is a nicely contoured example of this distinctive sword type. The hilt is forged from thick structural rounded bars and plates. The single edged blade is a finely forged example with a double fuller most likely of Solingen manufacture The basket guard is finely forged into its elegant 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. The panels are then further decorated with four flanged heart shapes which surround the centre circles. Further circles are pierced into each corner of the squares. The smaller, secondary guard plates to the sides, and the knucklebow plate to the front, are finished in similar style. The cone-shaped pommel has a waisted button on top and is decorated with four pairs of incised double lines, equally spaced apart, 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 blade shoulders are secured in a chiselled groove in the cross guard bar underneath the hilt which retains its scrolled wrist guard. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip is covered with shagreen and bound with wire. The hilt also has a full leather liner covered with red cloth on the outside and stitched with a blue silken hem. The tapering single edged blade is of fine quality. It has a ricasso which extends 1.5 inches (4.0 cm) from the hilt. A short bold fuller extends for the length of the ricasso just inside the blunt edge of the cutting side of the blade. A further bold fuller runs underneath the spine from the hilt and terminates 25.5 inches (65 cm) along after which the blade is double edged to the the tip. A second fuller commences a short distance from the hilt runs underneath the first. The blade is just under 32 inches (81.25 cm) long. For similar styles of hilt see “Poetry in Steel The Earliest Swords of Walter Allan of Stirling”, by the Baron of Earlshall, London Park Lane Arms Fair, page 129 to 138, Spring 2018, Apollo Publishing. There are strong resemblances between this hilt and those produced in Stirling by both John and Walter Allan during this period, particularly that shown on page 137, figs 11 and 12, which is a robust hilt of similar profile lacking fretted edges to the guard panels. See also Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, page 106, fig F12, for a sword in a private American collection and pages 115, fig F15h, and page 116, fig F16, for swords in the Marischal College in Aberdeen, all of which have plain unfretted edges to the guard panels. The overall length of the sword is 37.5 inches (95 cm) long.

Nation : British
Local Price : £4650

Majestic Victorian Scottish Dirk for a 74th Highlanders Officer dating to before 1881. A very nice dirk of bold proportions for an officer of the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot dating to before the widespread reforms to the British Infantry implemented by the Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers in 1881. As part of these reforms the 74th (Highland) Regiment amalgamated with the 71st (Highland) Regiment to become the Highland Light Infantry with the 74th forming the 2nd Battalion. The dirk mounts are of gilt bronze and it was retailed by Ponder, 37 Duke Street, St James, London. The single-edged leaf shaped blade is just under a foot long (just over 30 cm) and has a blunt back edge extending 7 inches (18 cm) from the base of the grip which is scalloped for most of its length after which it is double edged to the tip. A single pronounced fuller runs underneath the blunt back edge with a broader, shallower fuller running beneath along the middle of the blade. The blade is sumptuously etched and engraved on both sides. The side with the cutting edge to the left when the dirk is held upwards has the name of the retailer near the grip with a stand of arms above featuring banners, muskets, trumpets and a bonnet. A vacant circular depression in the middle of the stand of arms once contained a small circular brass stud which is now missing. The rest of the blade is taken up with 13 battle honours in scrolling script beginning with the Sieges of Seringapatam in India in 1792 / 1799 and ending with the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Period and the Battle for Toulouse in 1814 On the reverse side near the grip an elephant is present over which “ASSAYE” marks the involvement of the Regiment in the battle of that name in India in 1803. Above this a complex foliate panel contains a vacant cartouche in the middle. Above this the regimental badge is present on a star surround centred with a thistle surrounded by a circular belt with the words NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (NO ONE PROVOKES ME WITH IMPUNITY) engraved within its borders , followed by another foliate panel containing the VR cypher and a crown above. The grips of the dirk, by-knife and fork are baluster shaped and of black hardwood cut with fluted basket weave patterns with brass studs mounted at the intersections. Each piece is mounted with a pommel with bold foliage and thistles in raised relief with yellow backed multi-faceted citrines mounted on top. The by-knife and fork are secured in their pockets with blued sprung steel clips mounted onto each grip on one side. The Regimental badge and motto “NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT ” is applied either side of the base mount of the dirk grip, similar to the badge on the blade, on a background of thistles and foliage. This was the Latin motto of the Royal Stuart dynasty of Scotland from at least the reign of James VI when it appeared on the reverse side of merk coins minted in 1578 and 1580. It is still the adopted motto of the Order of the Thistle and of some Scottish regiments of the modern British Army. The scabbard is of wood covered with black leather and retains its suspension bar and strap at the back. The mouthpiece to the front shows St Andrew holding a cross on a background of a star surrounded with foliage and thistles. The mount for the by-knife pocket shows an Indian Elephant with “ASSAYE” above, as on the blade, surrounded with thistles and foliage. On the mount of the by-fork pocket is the Regimental number “74” within a frame of foliage and thistles. The chape possesses further thistle designs. The dirk is in overall fine condition. The bronze mounts retain almost all of their gilt cover. The blade is in good condition. The pommel stones and their housings are intact. The overall length of the dirk in its scabbard is just over 189 inches (48.5 cm) long. The dirk alone is 17.75 inches (44.5 cm) long. The 74th was raised in 1787 by Archibald Campbell, their first Colonel, and was known as Campbell's Highlanders. The Regiment first saw action in India during the Mysore campaign of 1789, and subsequently saw action under Arthur Wellesley in the Mahratta War of 1802. Returning to Europe, the 74th served under Wellington again in the Peninsular campaign, and fought at Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro, (both sieges of Badajoz), also the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelles, Tarbes, Orthe, and Toulouse. It was then sent to help garrison Ireland, and so missed the Battle of Waterloo, although it was on its way to embark for Belgium when news of the battle arrived. The Regiment remained in Ireland until 1818 and was then in Canada and New Brunswick until 1828, Bermuda for a year, and in Ireland again from 1830 to 1834. Later in the 1830s and into the 1840s, the 74th was stationed in St. Lucia, Barbados and other islands in the West Indies; its personnel keeping remarkably healthy apart from one outbreak of fever and dysentery. Without coming home again, the Regiment went to Quebec in Canada. The 74th came back to Britain from Canada in March 1845 and later that year became the 74th (Highland) Regiment and served in the Kaffir War and in the Sepoy Rebellion. In 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, the 74th amalgamated with the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot to become the 2nd battalion, Highland Light Infantry.

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Very Fine Victorian Scottish Dirk for a 79th (Cameron) Highlanders Officer dating to between 1855 to 1881. A very fine and impressive Scottish Military Dirk made for an Officer in the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders) between 1855 and 1871. The dirk is in excellent condition and of fine quality. The blade retains its original polish which highlights the etched and engraved regimental emblems, the VR cipher, battle honours and other Scottish military symbols. It is housed in its black wooden leather covered scabbard with its bi-knife and fork. The Ormolu bronze mounts retain all of the original detail. The baluster shaped grips of the dirk, bi-knife and fork are fashioned from black hardwood or ebony, carved with a pattern of basket weave with brass dome-headed studs mounted at the intersections. The raised ornate pommel tops are canted slightly forwards, and swollen at the rear, mounted with finely cut uniformly amber coloured multifaceted Citrine pommel stones, with decorative rims featuring bands of thistles, acorns and foliage (thistles and to a lesser degree acorns are symbolic components of Scottish heraldry). The dirk grip base mount is decorated in the same manner. This mount is raised into a panel at the front enhanced with further decoration. The grip base behind this mount is carved with a Scottish military bonnet. The cone shaped grip bases of the bi-knife and fork are plain and mounted with blued sprung steel clips on either side to secure the grips into the scabbard pocket tops. The bi-knife blade has a scalloped back edge and is marked by the blade making business “John Sellers” which first appeared in the Sheffield Directories in 1833. The leaf shaped blade is 11 inches (28 cm) long and has a scalloped back edge under which a deep fuller extends towards the tip and terminates just after the scallop line ends. After this the blade is double edged to the tip. A wider fuller extends from the hilt along the middle of the blade to just before the end of the scalloped line. The dirk blade is profusely etched and engraved in the typical high-quality manner of the late Victorian era and retains its original polished finish. On the “point up” side, with the cutting edge facing to the right, the “VR” cipher with a crown above is present near the hilt. Above this the number of the regiment “79” is featured inside a laurel wreath. Above the wreath pennants mark 12 battle honours of the regiment interspersed with foliage. The oldest is the Battle of Egmontopzee fought in 1799 in the Anglo-Russian Helder Campaign and the most recent is the Siege of Sebastopol in the Crimean War in 1854-1855. Towards the tip the decoration features a flamboyant Scottish thistle. On the reverse side the blade base features the “VR” cipher, with a crown above, followed by a “79” inside a wreath similar to the same designs on the first side. Above the wreath a flamboyant Scottish thistle is present followed by a stand of arms centered with the Cross of St Andrew, surrounded with basket hilted swords, lances, muskets and banners. The area near the blade tip accommodates a panel of Scottish bluebells (harebells) which like thistles and acorns are symbols in Scottish heraldry and are the traditional plant badge for some clans. The dirk is housed in its wooden scabbard covered with black leather on top of which the scabbard mounts are applied. The mouthpiece to the front contains the regimental number 79 inside an oak and thistle leaf garland in raised relief. The bi-knife and chape mounts have thistle sprays and the bi-fork mount is of bluebells. The mounts at the back are plain and the back of the mouthpiece retains its raised bar suspension mount. The overall length of the dirk in its scabbard is just over 16.5 inches (just over 42 cm). The 79th or Cameron Highlanders was one of the most famous regiments of the British Army. The regiment was originally raised in 1793 as the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameronian Volunteers) in the Highlands of Scotland and in 1804 was renamed the 79th Regiment of Foot (Cameron Highlanders). The regiment took part in many major engagements in the Napoleonic period including battles in Egypt, the Peninsula War and Waterloo. The thistles and acorns featured on the dirk are elements of the traditional arms of Clan Cameron. This dirk dates to the period shortly after the Siege of Sebastopol which lasted from 1854 to 1855 in the Crimean War. This is the last / latest battle honour depicted on the blade. In 1881, Childers Reforms to the British Infantry led to the regiment being renamed the 1st Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. Dirks made for the regiment were marked in this manner from then on. The regiment had embarked for the Crimea towards the end of the Crimean War in 1854 and completed its service there by participating in the end of the Siege and in the battles of Alma, Balaclava and the expedition to Kerch. Shortly after returning to the UK the regiment sailed to India to help suppress the Indian Mutiny and in 1858 took part in the Capture of Lucknow and the Battle of Bareilly. The dirk is not marked in its battle honours with this service in India which probably means the dirk had been made before this campaign took pace. The regiment returned to the UK in 1871. In 1873 Queen Victoria presented the regiment with new colours and directed that the regiment be known as the 79th Regiment, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. The regimental number of 79 was dispensed with in 1881. Hence the dirk dates to the period between 1855 and 1881. Condition: The condition of the dirk is excellent with only minor wear to the Ormolu backs of the scabbard mounts caused by the rubbing of clothing when the dirk has been worn. The pommel stones are in excellent condition with no cracks, chips or interference to the mount housings. The grips are in fine order and the studs are complete as are the sprung retention clips for the bi-knife and fork.