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Nation : Indian
Local Price : €7200

South Indian cobra tip sword - An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip..

Nation : -
Local Price : £5,950.00

1796 Silver Hilt Renfrewshire Yeomanry Presentation Sword. 1796 Hallmarked Silver Gilt Hilted Renfrewshire Yeomanry Presentation sword. 1796 Infantry officer&#acute;s hilt made of solid silver with gilt finish with some age wear so the silver is showing through in area&#acute;s plus super decoration and hallmarks. The blade is fully engraved to the tip with GR crown, St Andrew holding the cross, trophies of arms, standing Britannia, Winged Victory and early Renfrewshire crest all surrounded by floral decoration, note some engraving is inlayed with gilt and some is not. The presentation reads as follows: A Present From The Non “ Commiss&#acute;d Officers & Privates Of the 3rd Company Renfrewshire Yeomanry to Capt Andrew Wilson Bring An Expression Of Their Esteem & Attachment To Him For His Persevering Attention To Their Discipline & Oeconomy While They Had The Honour Of Being Commanded By Him As Their Captain 27th February 1802. It is complete with black leather scabbard with hallmarked silver mounts please note age repairs.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5950

Click and use the code 23407 to search for this item on the dealer website Over 500 Year Old Samurai Ninjutsu Battle-Sword Katana. Fitted in Total Black For Camouflaged Combat. It&#acute;s Simplicity is In Fact Most Elegant. The Black on Black Livery is The Apex of Sophistication As Much For Works Art as For Personal Attire.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £5950.00

Cased Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols. A Cased Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols by I. Wilkins of Grantham. With rebrowned octagonal barrels with silver fore-sights, engraved ‘Grantham' in script along the top flats, stamped with proofs and barrel smith mark, ‘TK', decorated with a geometric band at the breeches, gold touch-holes, border engraved tangs fitted with standing rear-sights, stepped bevelled locks signed, ‘I WILKINS' within a gold oval, decorated with sun bursts at the rear of the locks, cocks decorated en suite (one possibly a working life replacement) full-stocked in walnut with swelling chequered butts and slab sided grips, (small crack behind one of the locks - see photographs) completed with engraved steel mounts comprising butt caps, trigger guards decorated with flowers on the bow and pineapple finials and turned ramrod pipes, with horn tipped ramrods: in a relined and refitted pistol box, with all accessories comprising bullet mould, powder flask and loading rod, etc, the exterior with flush fitting carrying handle.

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 : British
Local Price : £5850

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword with “S” Bar Hilt and Scabbard circa 1700. An early Scottish sword mounted with a basket hilt of “S” Bar form dating to the late 17th or turn of the 18th century. The basket guard is a sturdy example wrought with square and oblong section iron structural bars. The sword retains its scabbard which is a rare feature for a sword of this age. Early “S” Bar Scottish basket hilts of this type are not excessively rare, but they do not appear for sale very often compared to other types. The “S” bar feature is a throwback to the earlier 17th century baskets of ribbon-hilted, and other early Scottish basket forms, which were manufactured with more rudimentary “S” bars which fill the spaces between the side guard bars and rear guard bars. The guard is formed from square and rectangular section structural bars and mounted with two main frontal guard panels which are pierced with four heart shapes with the points directed to a pierced circle in the middle. The panels are incised with border lines inside each side and the edges are filed with decorative grooves and cusps. A secondary guard panel, to the front, forms the knucklebow which is decorated with similar edges and a single pierced heart at the base, above which four pierced circles are applied and the whole finished with three vertical filed lines which converge towards the top. Lateral lines are filed at the base in more defined form, consisting of a broad groove flanked by narrower incised lines. The side guards are formed with “S” shaped bars with grooved cusped merlons beneath. Two forward loop guards are applied to the front in the usual manner. The three upper guard arm terminals are tucked into a pronounced groove cut around the lower half of the pommel. The pommel is cone shaped top and bottom. It is mounted with a pronounced circular pommel button on top from which radiate four sets of lines, each with a broad groove in the middle, flanked by narrower incised lines, similar to the grooves at the base of the knucklebow. The broader middle groove in each case is decorated with punched dots which is a 17th / early 18th century feature. A thick leather liner lies in contour with the base of the basket guard interior. The spirally fluted baluster shaped grip has a hard wood core and is wrapped with shagreen and bound with metal strip. The scabbard is of early type and a rare survivor. It consists of two slats of wood bound with leather which is stitched together along the middle of the back. Two decorative lines run in parallel along each edge on both sides. The front is mounted with two filed and shaped suspension clips which are also an early feature. Patterns all along this side between the parallel lines are formed from the application of a single small punch in the approximate form of thistles. The chape is a modern replacement. Of tapering double edged form the blade has a pronounced ricasso extending for extending for 1.5 inches (4 cm) from the hilt. The remnants of vertical line decoration is present near each edge. From the end of the ricasso the blade is of lenticular section and a short central shallow fuller extends for 6.25 inches (16 cm) along the middle of the blade on each side. The remnants of floral decoration at the forte is present on one side. Generally the sword is in good condition although shows wear. The hilt has maintained its original shape and condition. The blade has light blackened age patches in places as often happens when a blade is left in its scabbard for too long without attention. For similar swords see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, pages 86 to 93.

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 : -
Local Price : 800,00 kr

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Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

British Tower Eliott Carbine and Bayonet. British Tower Eliott Carbine and Bayonet in super condition with plain barrel stamped L H 383 and tang, the former with fore-sight also forming the lug for a bayonet, border engraved rounded lock with GR crowned and Tower across the tail, figured full stock, with apron around the barrel tang, stamped with inspector’s marks behind the trigger-guard tang, regulation brass mounts, flat side-plate of shaped outline, brass fore-end cap, steel sling bar, original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling cut with a groove, Tower proofs. This carbine takes its name from the designer General George Augustus Eliott. It was first approved in June 1773 and was intended for light dragoons. Although the design 20 years old at the onset of the Napoleonic War 1803-1815 and it was still in use long after 1815. Please note free shipping to UK only the rest of the world at cost.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5650

Click and use the code 24338 to search for this item on the dealer website Captivating Shinto Era Wakizashi, Circa 1650, Signed Fuyuhiro. A Wonderful and Elegant Edo Period Sword of Exceptional Sophistication.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5600

English Rapier dating to circa 1620 to 1630. A rare and interesting English Dish Hilted Rapier dating to the second quarter of the 17th century. The guard is sumptuously pierced and engraved in the highest quality English manner for the time. The hilt is very similar to that illustrated by Keith Dowen in “Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars”, Royal Armouries Museum, 2019, page 73 and on the front cover. The rapier is in the Royal Armouries collection reference: IX.883. Both rapiers were most likely manufactured by the same man. The hilt consists of a bold rectangular quillon block from which downward facing pointed langets are forged tight against the ricasso of the blade. A knucklebow emerges horizontally at the front and curls upwards towards the pommel front where its flattened terminal is bent to the vertical, pierced and screwed to the pommel. To the rear a horizontal quillon emerges and curls downwards in a scroll and terminates in a beast’s head finial. From beneath the knucklebow and the quillon two pas d’ane rings curl downwards with the terminals forged onto the dish guard. The dish is a symmetrical bowl with an upward facing tapering extension to the front, the end of which which is forged onto the knucklebow, about a quarter of the way up. The pommel is of slightly flattened globular form with a pronounced ribbed integral pommel button on top and a flared neck beneath with a grooved rim. The chiselled and pierced decoration to the hilt is quintessentially English for the time period and of exceptional quality. The dish guard is formed with four primary circular panels with secondary overlapping arched panels between. The four primary panels are sculpted with the head of a wigged man inside a roundel in the centre, flanked by beast’s heads either side which face the masks, held together by intricate foliate shapes and tendrils. The secondary panels incorporate the same beast’s heads to face away from each other, and above these in each case is the head of a cherub and a floret beneath. The upward extension to the dish at the front is centred with another wigged head with counter facing beasts beneath, both features of larger form, supported by further tendrils and foliage. The knucklebow and quillon are decorated with fluted lines and knops towards the terminals. A similar masked head forms a roundel on each side of the knucklebow at halfway. Front and back the pommel is decorated with the chiselled masked head faced by beasts on each side amongst tendrils and foliage. The pommel base is cut to resemble a classical Corinthian column with similar, but less detailed design, applied to the quillon block. As is usual with the best English swords of this period the grip is an impressive piece craftsmanship in its own right. It has a wooden core of slight baluster profile and rounded oblong section. It is tightly spirally grooved with each groove bound with flat copper strip with thinner wires of rounded section on each side. The ridges between are mounted with two counter facing copper ropes with thinner twists on each side. Tightly woven copper “Turks Heads” are mounted top and bottom. The stiff tapering blade is of lenticular section with a pronounced deep fuller extending for 9 inches (23 cm) from the hilt. Letters repeated on each side inside the fuller are spaced with dots and read the name of the blademaker “SEBASTIAN HERNANI” with a quatrefoil of dots punched after the end of each name and between. Shortly after the fuller terminates an orb and cross mark is incised on both sides. The condition of the rapier is lightly pitted and patinated overall which in no way detracts from the fine quality of the workmanship. There are no repairs, breaks or noticeable damages to the hilt which retains its pleasing original shape. The blade is of fine quality though as yet we have not identified the blade maker. The blade is 35 inches (89 cm) long and overall the rapier is 42.25 inches (just over 107 cm) long overall. The length of the blade is shorter than that employed specifically for duelling and indicates that the rapier may have been put to a more general military use by a member of the English officer class.

Nation : -
Local Price : 780,00 kr

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Nation : Italian
Local Price : 7,100.00 USD

FINE NORTH ITALIAN RAPIER C.1640-60. Milanese or Brescian. Iron hilt with double shell guards pierced with birds in foliage flanking portrait medallions. The shell edges and knuckle bow with scrolling foliage and ribbed central swells. Portrait medallion to the quillon block. The pommel with two portrait medallions on scrolling foliage ground. Fine copper and brass wire wrapped grip. 36 3/4" blade with fuller at the forte pierced with circles and key slots and stopped with a mark. Flattened diamond section blade with slightly concave edges and four facets to the flats, below the marks. Exceptional condition. The blade crisp with mottled patina. Hilt undoubtedly plated originally.

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 : -
Local Price : 750,00 kr

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Local Price : 750,00 kr

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Local Price : 750,00 kr

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Local Price : 750,00 kr

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Local Price : 750,00 kr

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Nation : -
Local Price : $5295.00

Exceptional Ottoman Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistol with Folding Bayonet, ca. 1830. Featuring octagonal 8″ barrel of approximately .65 caliber, with the upper three planes engraved and decorated with silver damascening in foliate pattern; maker's mark in silver on the tang. Spring-mounted folding bayonet with sliding catch and push button release decorated ensuite. Lock with roller and gold-lined flash pan, finely engraved with foliate decor. Figured hardwood full stock profusely inlaid with silver wire in foliate pattern (minor silver loss). Steel trigger guard and twin side plates, each engraved with foliage and checkering ensuite. Cast and chased silver buttcap, wrist escutcheon, and barrel tang surround. Exceptional workmanship with nearly every surface decorated in fine detail. Mechanically fine with very strong mainspring. Overall length 14″ with bayonet folded, 17 3/4″ with bayonet extended. Please email us for high resolution photos of this extraordinary piece.

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 : -
Local Price : $4995.00

Medieval Knightly Type XIV Broadsword, Early 14th C.

Nation : American
Local Price : $4995.00

Fine Presentation Civil War M1852 Naval Officer’s Sword. Fine quality and condition US M1852 Naval Officer's Sword made by Clauberg of Solingen and retailed by the famous New York firm of Schuyler, Hartley, & Graham; inscribed on the scabbard throat fitting “Presented to/Capt. E.A. Robinson/from the crew/U.S.S. Wilderness/1864″. Standard pattern with gilt brass hilt featuring pierced foliate decoration and ribbon bearing “USN” on the guard; sharkskin grip with brass wire wrap. Slightly curved 29 ½” single-edged blade with broad and narrow fullers, finely etched over its upper half with foliage, anchor, trident, and “USN” in ribbon on one side and “IRON PROOF”, capstan, stands of arms, and US flag on the other side. Ricasso marked “Clauberg/Solingen in an oval around a standing knight on one side and “SCHUYLER HARTLEY/& GRAHAM/NEW YORK” on the other side. Etching very clear and retains its original frosted finish. Black leather scabbard with brass mounts and double carry rings. Leather flaking but complete and mounts loose due to leather shrinkage. Retains a period gold bullion sword know, likely with it from the beginning (some wear and fading). USS Wilderness Originally built as the “B. N. Creary” in 1864 at Brooklyn, New York she was acquired by the Union Navy on 30 May, 1864 and simultaneously renamed “Wilderness”. She fitted out at the New York Navy Yard and was commissioned on 20, July 1864, being immediately assigned to the 2nd Division of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. After serving briefly at Hampton Roads and the James River she was sent to the North Carolina coast where she was fitted with four 24-pounders in October, 1864. She went into action almost immediately and on the night of 31 October while patrolling off New Inlet, North Carolina, pursued and captured the British blockade runner “Annie”. In December she participated in the attacks on Ft. Fisher where she assisted in the failed attempt to breach the fort by towing the sidewheel steamer “Louisiana” filled with explosives near the fort's walls. The ship exploded as planned but had little effect. On January 13, 1865 “Wilderness” brought troops to within 500 yards of the shore where they were loaded on boats for the final assault on Ft. Fisher. She was decommissioned on 10 June 1865 and transferred to the Treasury Department and served as a revenue cutter in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1873 she was renamed “John A. Dix” and was eventually sold in 1891.

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 : ?
Local Price : £4950.00

Cased Flintlock Sporting Gun by Bailes of Ipswich. A Cased Flintlock Sporting Gun by H. Bailes of Ipswich. With sighted octagonal to round barrel signed in gold along the top-flat, 'H. Bailes Ipswich' with patent breech with four platinum lines and a gold touch hole, profusely engraved lock decorated with scrolling foliage and game, waterproof pan, half-stocked in walnut, cut with a band of chequering at the grip, profusely engraved mounts comprising butt plate, trigger guard and ramrod pipes: in relined mahogany case with accessories including powder flask and turn-screw, the exterior with flush fitting brass carrying handle. BAILES Dimensions: Bore: 14 Bore Barrel Length: 32 Inches (81.28 cm) Overall Length: 48 1/8 Inches (121.90 cm)

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 : 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 : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code 22873 to search for this item on the dealer website A, Fabulous Samurai Sword, A Most Fine Shinto Wakizashi By Omni Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro Circa 1660.

Nation : -
Local Price : £4,950.00

Swept Hilt Rapier Circa 1640. Swept Hilt Rapier Circa 1640 the pommel cylindrical form widening towards the base, the grip braided with turks head finials. The knuckle guard in ring form the smallest one fitted with a pierced plate. Four section curved bars forming the rear guard which show an age repair at the central joint please see images. The Long double-edged blade with small, short fuller is engraved with the Passau Wolf to one side, for reference please see item 11 in Rapiers by Eric Valentine. Overall length 135cm the blade 118cm

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 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 latest collection