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Nation : British
Local Price : £3250

Click and use the code 23387 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Late 18th Century, Napoleonic Wars British Officer´s Sabre With a French ´Trophy´ Blade, With An Ancient Egyptian Goddess Wadget Entwined Serpent British Hilt

Nation : American
Local Price : £3250

Click and use the code 23317 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful And Rare American Revolutionary War Period Large Boxlock Action Double Cannon Barrelled Flintlock Volley Gun Pistol, Silver Scroll Inlaid Butt

Nation : German
Local Price : £3,250.00

Swept Hilt Rapier Late 16th Century. Swept Hilt Rapier Late 16th Century, Northern Europe possibly German. With tapering full-length blade double edged, cut with a shallow central fuller on each side running full length, rectangular ricasso stamped with armours – smiths mark, hilt of bars comprising two outer side-rings joined to down curved arms, the upper ring linked by a curved bar to the knuckle guard, inner-guard rising to join the knuckle-guard with wire bound grip with two turks-heads showing signs of age wear.Â Overall length 112 cm the blade 98cm

Nation : ?
Local Price : £3250.00

Basket Hilted Rapier. A Spanish Cup Hit Rapier, Late 17th Century. With tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section, stamped ‘++ EN TOLEDO ++' within the fuller on each side of the blade, steel hilt chiselled in low relief and comprising straight quillons, plain knuckle guard, associated urn shaped pommel decorated with scrolling foliage, with fine twisted wire bound grip. Dimensions: Blade Length: 43.5 Inches (110.49 cm) Overall Length: 52 Inches (132.08 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250.00

Royal Highland Infantry Sword 42nd – Blackwatch c 1760. Regulation pattern infantry sword for the Highland Regiments, in good solid condition with steel basket hilt and Fisk skin grip and cone pommel engraved 42 A 2I – Blackwatch. The blade single edged with fuller running full length it is marked with GR Crown and the maker Drury . Blade and pommel all tight, overall length 97 cm blade 82cm. For reference please see Swords of Scotland and England by Bezdek page 341 “ English Infantry Swords for Highland Regiments

Nation : French
Local Price : 4,200.00 USD

FINE FRENCH STEEL HILTED SMALLSWORD C.1750. This sword is distinguished both for its quality and being in pristine condition. The hilt elements are chiseled in high relief and chased to a jewelers standard. The decoration interestingly consists of central panels of flowers of various types with foliage, flanked by small displays of arms. All of the relief decoration is blued, now fading to brown. Foliage fills the balance of the surfaces and the ground is fire gilt throughout. The grip is silver wire and tape as well as a russet steel band with a series of gold crenelated rosettes. The blade is decorated at the forte with a bordered panel of baroque ribbon and foliage and a borderless panel above. 31 5/8" length blade.

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : €3800

Sawasa east indian inkwell - Sawasa is metalware in black and gold made primarily for the Dutch expat community in Asia..

Nation : German
Local Price : $5500.00 CAD

GERMAN SWEPT HILT RAPIER. GERMAN SWEPT HILT RAPIER: circa 1590-1610. Passau wolf in the right fuller. 39 ¾” blade, 1 1/8” wide. Very old museum quality wire wrapping on the grip. Very nice dark grey patina overall. Nice original untouched condition. V.G. $5500.00

Nation : British
Local Price : 3995.00 USD

Extremely Rare, Unpublished Dragoon Officer’s Saber By Thomas Gill, C 1785.. Possibly a prototype, experimental or a one off with beautiful, large, cast steel, basket guard and 36” straight blade, bearing “Gill’s Warranted” mark, now worn from many years of polishing. Original fish skin grip with braided brass wire still intact. The uniquely designed basket guard is stunning. It is topped off by a tall pommel with seashell design! If you want one hell of an 18th century British dragoon saber, this is it! Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out our other listings for more rare and important swords! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : 3995.00 USD

Rare & Important 17th Century Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier / Backsword!. Here is a very rare and early Spanish cup hilt rapier in "untouched" condition (all original) with a beautifully chiseled hilt! Its gadrooned turban pommel has a tall integral capstan that has never been re-peened (so hilt has some looseness – we like it like that as it only attests to the swords purity). Original wound steel grip wire with alternating bands of twisted copper is intact (a tiny old iron staple secures the loose bottom end on reverse). Both ferrules and even both langets are nicely chiseled en-suite with the rest of hilt. The guard-de-pulvo is also decorated in the form of sun rays. The cross guard and knuckle guard are nicely twisted with button terminals. The edge of the cup is chiseled with rope-work as is the bottom of cup! Its 38“ blade is of the back-sword type (Rigid with spine and sharpened on one side only). A great rarity that allows a sturdy thrust and a slashing cut. It is engraved with a cross and geometric designs on both sides that look very Aztec (some wear). Perhaps the designs were engraved in the Americas after the conquest of the Aztec peoples. Possibly owned by a conquistadore in the New World. We can find no other explanation for this. Whatever the case, this sword is a great rarity as far as Spanish cup hilts go. An old collection inventory number is inside the cup. Details of collection will go to purchaser. Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out our other listings for more great swords! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : British
Local Price : £3000

Rare British Infantry Basket Hilted Sword with ANDRIA FARARA marked blade circa 1735 to 1765. A fine British “three-quarter” basket hilted sword made for British infantry soldiers of the line in the mid 18th century. The sword is mounted with a fine quality tapering, double edged, Solingen-made, broad sword blade. The hilt is formed in the traditional manner for the half of the guard that protects the outside of the hand of a right handed user. In this respect a vertical oblong shaped guard plate is fitted between the flattened knuckle bow and the side guard bar. Then a similar flattened bar with merlons at the base is fitted between the side guard bar and the rear guard bar. On the other side, the usual side guard bar takes the same form as the knucklebow, and the space between these two flattened bars is occupied by a single, stretched, “S” shaped bar. There is no further protection for the hand on this side of the hilt. Clearly this design of hilt, unique in our experience, assumes that the inside hand of the user can be more economically protected with fewer bars than on the outside which is a deviation from the more usual basket hilt forms of the time. The downward curled wrist guard which extends from the cross guard at the rear and the forward loop guards which appear on more usual basket hilt designs are present. The pommel is of bun shaped type typical of British military swords of the mid 18th century. It has a multi-faceted button of separate manufacture from which fluted ridges radiate towards the mid line of the pommel. This elaborate feature is hand crafted and a quality embellishment in advance of the usual plain surfaces usually encountered with this pommel type. The original grip is made of hardwood covered with leather. It is spirally grooved bound with twisted brass wire flanked with narrower wire either side. Iron ferrules are applied top and bottom of the grip. The hilt retains its original red woollen fringe and stitched leather liner covered with red velvet on the outside and the remains of its stitched blue silken hem. The double edged blade tapers to its tip and has a short ricasso. A double fuller extends for 9 inches from the hilt after which an elaborate cruciform shape is incised into the blade on each side. Each fuller is stamped with “ANDRIA FARARA” each side with the words separated and flanked by pairs of “X” marks. The blade is almost certainly of German manufacture from one the the main European blade making centres such as Solingen. The slimmed down hilt design was a new innovation for the time deemed appropriate for infantry use. This measure is not a cost saving consideration in the manufacturing process, because the sword is a high quality although plain weapon, made up of sturdy, thick, well worked bars to the hilt, and mounted with a fine blade. The remarkable painting in the Royal Collection attributed to David Morier (1705? to 1770) entitled “An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745”, painted circa 1753, shows British line infantry repulsing a charge by Highlanders. The depiction of the weapons is deemed important by historians, because Morier is thought to have used actual combatants that took part in the battle as models with the weapons used. Of significance here are the swords carried by the British line infantry soldiers. These are basket hilted swords with typical bun pommels mounted with guards of three quarter size, similar to our sword, although the arrangement of the bars is slightly different. This may be due to artistic convenience / negligence on the part of Morier, or more likely, is indicative of slight variations in the way colonels often commissioned weapons manufacture for their individual regiments. See: https://www.rct.uk/collection/401243/an-incident-in-the-rebellion-of-1745 Measurements: The blade is 31.75 inches (80.5 cm) long and overall the sword is 38.25 inches long (97 cm). The ricasso is .75 of an inch long (2 cm). The fullers are 9 inches long (23 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,995.00

Presentation Heavy Cavalry Sword with Rare Celtic Hilt. SN 8870. A Rare Celtic Hilt Presentation Heavy Cavalry Sword. 40 1/2&157; overall, 35&157; wide straight blade with a spear point and wide fuller. Etched to one side with ´Prize Sword Won in the Dacorum Troop of Yeomanry 1833´ and at the forte &156;Prosser maker to the king and Royal Family Charing Cross&157; and on the obverse ´Prosser maker to the King and Royal Family London´ and&194;&160; ´WR IV´ under a Crown with crossed lances. Celtic hilt formed of S & C scrolls, stepped pommel and wire bound fish skin grip. In its black painted iron scabbard with two suspension rings. Dated 1833. A possibly unique sword conforms in size and style to the 1796 Heavy Cavalry Troopers sword with variation of Prosser´s Celtic hilt of 1815-20. Sword in very good condition, some small staining to the blade, scabbard has most of its original black paint. John Prosser Sword Cutler & Beltmaker to George III, 1795; George IV, 1827. Registered silversmith´s mark 1796. Sword Cutler & Gunmaker, 9 Charing Cross, 1796-1853; 37 Charing Cross 1854-60. Dacorum Troop of the South Hertfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry formed 16 February 1831.&194;&160; See The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912 Chapter 11 by R Deller for more on the Celtic hilt and Prosser.&194;&160;&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : $2995.00

English Officer’s Rapier/Broadsword, ca. 1660. Featuring double-edged 28″ lens-section blade with 5 ½” central fuller stamped with indistinct inscription, possibly “INRI”. Iron hilt featuring two side rings with double knob on the edge and sprung with plates perforated with tiny diamond-shaped holes (one with small damage). Knuckle bow extending between the side rings and joined to each with a pair of looping bars with scrolled finials; single acorn-shaped quillon; fluted bun-shaped pommel with small button. Grip with alternating flat and twisted iron wire wrap finished with turks heads top and bottom. Overall length 33 1/4″. Metal cleaned with blade showing lamination, light pitting, and a few shallow edge nicks.

Nation : British
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code 23659 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful 18th Century, London, 1770´s Brass Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistol, All Brass Mounted

Nation : American
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code 24960 to search for this item on the dealer website Magnificent 18th Century Silver Hilted Small Sword with Colichmarde Blade. A Near Pair to General George Washington´s Sword

Nation : German
Local Price : $2995.00

German Officer’s Broadsword with Scabbard, ca. 1680. Blackened hilt featuring single oblong side ring filled with a pierced plate embossed with acanthus design. Down-turned reverse quillon with lobed finial chiseled with acanthus design. Knuckle bow with central double knob joined to the pommel. Pommel with button and chiseled ensuite with acanthus design. Grip wrapped with three sizes of single strand and twisted brass wire and finished with braided turks heads top and bottom. Double- edged 33 1/4″ blade of hexagonal-section; the long ricasso stamped “JOANNE” on one side and “MARTINEZ” on the other inside an engraved border. Blade shows lamination, pitting, and a number of nicks from blade strikes primarily on the lower half. In its restored leather covered wood scabbard with blackened iron mounts. Overall length 38 ½”, not including scabbard.

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code 24983 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb 1875 pattern Japanese General´s Dress Parade Sword of an Imperial Japanese Army General of the Matsuura Clan. Lt General JunrokurÅ

Nation : British
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code 25007 to search for this item on the dealer website Sublime ´Queen Anne´, Circa 1720, Cannon Barrel Flintlock Holster Pistol of Sidelock Action, With Solid Silver Mounts Including a Silver, Maned Lion Head Butt Cap, and Silver Dragon Sideplate

Nation : British
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code 24766 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful & Massive Ancient Bronze Age Long Sword Circa 1200 to 800 BC. As Used From Before and Including the Greco-Persian Wars, Such as the Battles of Marathon & Thermopylae. As Used in Hand To Hand Combat Between Xerxes´ Immortals, and The Hoplit

Nation : ?
Local Price : 3,900.00 USD

EUROPEAN SMALLSWORD C.1750. Perhaps Flemish, this sword bears the name of the seller, Bressard, of rue du Madeline, Brussels, at the forte. Above, an angle with flag and impaled coronet indicating the nobility of its owner. The iron hilt is beautifully enriched with high relief figures of military arms, musical instruments flags, foliage and the globe, on a rich gold ground. The elements have symbolic meaning, some, such as the globe, obvious, and others more specific to its time and circumstances. Originally, many swords were finely crafted and richly decorated like this, however, examples retaining their original beauty and detail are quite scarce. 31 7/8" length blade.

Nation : American
Local Price : £2975

Click and use the code 24952 to search for this item on the dealer website Magnificent 18th Century Silver Hilted Small Sword, Dated 1758, with Colichmarde Blade. This Is One Of The Most Beautiful To Be Seen

Nation : British
Local Price : £2950

Click and use the code 23523 to search for this item on the dealer website Fine Medieval Short Sword 15th Century, Used in the Battle of Agincourt 1415 Period, Used By A Man-At Arms, Or Foot Knight

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

Scottish 18th Century Half Basket Cavalry Sword. 18th Century Half Basket Cavalry Sword c 1750 – 60 The basket made of flattened bars in rectangular sections complete with leather grip secured by twisted wire and pommel with line decoration and large tang button. The broad sword blade with small central fuller and engraved with what looks to be the sun with crested moon below to each side. The width of the blade at the hilt is 4.7cm an identical sword is detailed in the book British Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky Page 229 and similar noted as in the York castle Museum Information: Reference: British Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky Page 229 Blade Length: 87cm Overall Length: 104cm

Nation : ?
Local Price : £2950.00

Pair of Silver Mounted Flintlock Pocket Pistols. A Good Pair of Silver Inlaid Pocket Pistols by H.W. Mortimer & Son. With round turn-off barrels, decorated with geometric bands at the breech, side-mounted sprung bayonets, and engraved ‘St. JamesS St London' silver inlaid box-lock actions, decorated with scrolling silver foliage, fitted with bayonet release catch to the left and signed within an oval decorated with stands of arms, fitted with sliding safety catches, slab sided walnut butts decorated with scrolling silver wire and flower heads and foliate decorated oval escutcheon. A very good pair of silver mounted pocket pistols by a great English maker. MORTIMER Harvey Walklate Son of Harvey Walklate, apprenticed to father, 1791; free of Farriers Co., 1799. Gunmaker in partnership with father and uncle as H.W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer, 1800-1807; with father as H.W. Mortimer & Son, 1808-14; own business as gunmaker, 89 Fleet Street., 1814-22; 4 East Street., Hoxton, 1823-4. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: Barrel Length: Overall Length:

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

Dragoon Officers Backsword 1788. SN X3000. A 1788 Dragoon Officers Backsword. 40" overall, 33" slightly&194;&160;curved blade with wide fuller stamped Crown over 3 inspectors mark and engraved ´Hadley´ on back edge. Wrought iron hilt with reeded bow and flat bars, faceted oval pommel, twisted&194;&160;wooden grip with ferrules and original grey fish skin cover and triple twisted steel wire. Circa 1790 A rare sword in good condition, lacks scabbard. Thomas Hadley sword cutler Birmingham 1766-1784.&194;&160;&194;&160; See ´The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912´ by R. Dellar page 22 for a similar example. Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

British Celtic Hilt Heavy Cavalry Sword. #2003017. The very rare Celtic Hilt (Dellar, 1995) Heavy Cavalry officer’s sword first appeared on the battlefields of the Peninsular around 1811/1812, approximately four years after Britain’s entry into the conflict in 1808.The Celtic-Hilted sabre was developed by John Prosser, probably in consultation with Dragoon officers, as a replacement for the regulation pattern Ladder-Hilt Heavy Cavalry sword. The officers having had first-hand experience of the regulation pattern’s inadequacies.The few known examples of the Celtic hilt heavy cavalry sabre that have regimental attribution are all named to the Dragoons; the 4th Dragoons in particular. One example exists in the Edinburgh Castle museum, Scotland, marked to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (although the officer who owned it served with the 4th Dragoons in the Peninsular). Another example held in the Edinburgh Castle museum is marked to the 3rd Dragoons. The 3rd, 4th and 5th Dragoons made up the Heavy Brigade, commanded by John Le Marchant until his death at the Battle of Salamanca on 22nd July 1812. The Heavy Brigade shipped to Portugal, billeted together and fought side by side throughout the Peninsular Campaign.The 885mm single-edged, pipe-back blade has a large 330mm re-curved yelman terminating in a quill point. The blade is in very good condition with a pleasing pale patina and speckles of darker tarnish along its length. The blade was service sharpened and retains its original washer.Despite its width (37mm at the ricasso), thickness (8mm pipe-back) and length with minimal distal taper (6mm at the beginning of the yelman), the balance point of the blade is only 165mm from the guard. In the hands of experienced heavy cavalry officers this sword would have been devastating.The pierced and incised decoration on the steel bowl guard is reminiscent of Celtic designs, giving the sword its name. The guard is in overall great condition with a solid, period braised repair at the lanyard slot. The guard has a great patina. The shagreen wrapped grip is in generally good condition with a small, repair where it enters the pommel. The grip retains its twisted silver wire and most of its shagreen with age and use appropriate wear. The blade is firm in the hilt.The sword is complete with its original steel scabbard with keyhole throat to accommodate the pipe-backed blade. The scabbard is missing its suspension rings but the ring bands are in good order. The scabbard is on overall excellent condition and the sword sheathes and draws smoothly.This is an excellent example of an exceptionally rare Celtic hilt heavy cavalry fighting sword that probably saw service in the Peninsular campaign.

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £2950

Click and use the code 22307 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful 17th to 18th Century Chinese Qing Dynasty Period Sword Of The Era Of Emperor Kangxi, With a Silver Wire Bound Hilt, and a Silver, Giant Rayskin, Coral & Turquoise Gem Set Panelled Scabbard

Nation : German
Local Price : £2950

Click and use the code 24764 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Wonderful Trojan War Period Full Length Bronze Sword Blade 28.75 Inches Long Circa 1200 B.C.

Nation : Russian
Local Price : £2,950.00

Russian Tula Arsenal Model 1828 Flintlock Musket. Russian Tula Arsenal Model 1828 Flintlock Musket walnut stock with a cartouche on the right butt, brass fittings marked with date, lock plate marked TYVA/1836. The brass butt plate, which has the Russian double-headed eagle insignia. The musket is in excellent condition and in full working order overall length 57 inch the barrel 41.5 inch

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

English Brass Blunderbuss by Hadley. English Brass Barrelled Blunderbuss by Hadley super condition untouched stock with brass furniture including engraved butt plate, trigger guard and vacant oval escutcheon. The brass barrel struck with proof marks and engraved with London and decoration. The lock plate maker marked Hadley with decoration matching the butt plate and barrel and complete with all steel ramrod.

Nation : -
Local Price : £2,950.00

Flintlock Duelling Pistol By Wogdon London Circa 1780. Flintlock Duelling Pistol By Wogdon London Circa 1780 re browned swamped sighted barrel signed along the top flat at the breech and engraved with a transverse band of beadwork at the rear, foliate engraved tang en suite and incorporating the back-sight, signed flat bevelled detented lock retained by two screws and with safety catch and bevelled cock, figured full stock with swelling flat sided butt, iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with acorn finial and engraved with foliage on the bow, rounded pommel cap, ramrod pipes, and original ramrod iron parts with some pitting overall. Silver plaque fitted engraved with The crown is that of an Earl and the sun splendour which was used by the Yorkist Kings. Note UK shipping only

Nation : ?
Local Price : £2950.00

Pair of Cased Carbine Bore Pistols. A Good Pair of Carbine Bore Cased Percussion Belt Pistols. With sighted browned octagonal barrels, engraved, ‘J. BLANCH GRACE CHURCH ST. LONDON' along the top flats, stamped with London proofs fitted with captive ramrods beneath, foliate engraved box-lock actions fitted with standing rear-sights and blued belt hooks, micro chequered walnut butts in good condition, ovoid butt caps, fitted with folding traps: in their original lined and fitted case, with some accessories including bullet mould, nipple key and balls. The interior of the lid with original John Blanch trade label. A nice set. BLANCH John, Born 1784, Apprentice to Jackson Mortimer, 1800; free of Farriers Co. 1811. Elected Assistant, 1827; Master, 1834. Married his masters daughter, Ann, and established business, 1809. Worked first for John Manton and then in partnership with father-in-law as Mortimer & Blanch, 1811-12. Gunmaker, 39 Fish St. Hill, 1813-25; 29 Gracechurch St., 1826-48. At 25 Hanover St. Camberwell, 1841 Census. With son William, became John Blanch & Son. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London 1350-1850. George Shumway Publishers, USA. Dimensions: Bore: 16 Bore Barrel Length: 4 Inches (10.16 cm) Overall Length: 9 Inches (22.86 cm)