A small selection of sold edged weapons from Ashoka Arts...
A good Kurdish Iraqi Jambiya dagger with silver sheath, horn hilt and wootz steel blade |
AA fine Russian kindjal dagger with chiselled gilt-silver mounts and damascus steel blade |
A curious silver dagger from Malabar/Kerala with silver scriber
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A good 1792 pattern Light Cavalry sabre by Hadley |
A 19th century Sudanese Kaskara sword with reptile skin bound scabbard and the blade engraved with koranic calligraphy |
A fine Sikkin Panjang sword from Aceh, Sumatra, the collar of solid gold chiselled and inlaid with enamels |
A fine silver hunting sword by Cullum of Charing Cross 18th century |
An extremely fine Indian 'Khyber-knife' sword with good wootz damascus blade, ivory grips and gold damscened mounts |
A most interesting Katar dagger from South India, the blade and sheath mounts of solid silver, the grips and sidebars finely chiselles and gilt |
A rare good-quality dagger from South India/Mysore featuring a Yali to the hilt with moveable parts |
A good early Deccan dagger 'Chillanum' with a highly recurved wootz blade, chiselled steel hilt and velevt sheath 17th/18th century |
A fine Persian shamshir sword with laddered wootz blade, walrus ivory grips and watered steel mounts |
A rare Indian triple-bladed dagger 'Haladie' Thickened steel blades with central grip and handguard, 18th or 19th century |
An early Nayar sword, all steel chiselled with decoration and with a large rectangular wooden pommel |
A good ivory and silver hilted Moro Kris sword with laminated waved blade 19th century |
A rare Indian Haladie triple-bladed dagger with Zulfiqar split tip side blades |
A fine Turkish dagger or Qama, Tombak gilt hilt and sheath with a watered blade and gold damscened forte early 19th century |
A good Bichaq dagger from Crete. Ivory hilt with chiselled silver sheath, damascened silver blade |
A wonderful heavy Indian Khanda sword, watered wootz blade, the hilt chiselled and silver overlaid and weighted with lead |
A very fine Ottoman court dagger Bichak/bichaq. Solid silver hilt chiselled with chiselled gilt-silver sheath |
A fine early Spanish dagger, ribbed horn grip inlaid with silver, the blade pierced and engraved |
A small group of Thai Dha swords, variously mounted with silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory and niello 18th and 19th centuries |
An important Mughal khanjar dagger, the hilt and sheath of gold pierced and inlaid with diamons, rubies and emeralds, the blade wootz and inlaid with gold. Hyderabad, 17th/early 19th century |
A good Melanau Parang Latok sword, the carved wood handle inlaid with ivory |
A good early Indian Pesh-Kabz dagger with wootz blade and a solid ivory silver-mounted hilt |
A scarce Paiwan Aboriginal sword with heavy steel blade possibly adapted from a japanese sword, inlaid and applied with metal decoration |
A good Persian Khanjar dagger walrus ivory hilt, chiselled wootz blade, the sheath of embossed leather and silver chape and hanging ring |
AA rare early Moro Pira sword with cane binding and silver mount to the grip |
A high quality Pichangetti knife dagger from the Malabar coast, thick silver mounts and decorated with pink coral |
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A fine Burmese Dha dagger with pierced carved ivory hilt and chiselled silver mounts |
An unusual Tulwar sword from South India with chiselled blade, silvered hilt and a wooden scabbard carved in the Bumese style |
A wonderful Turkish kindjal dagger, the hilt of horn and the silver mounts set with semi-precious stones |
A high quality Ottoman Yataghan/ Yatagan sword from Greece silver chiselled hilt and scabbard |
Two fine Oman swords Kattara with silver mounts and European blades inlaid with the mark of Passau |
A good Turkish/Syrian dagger Jambiya the hilt of agate inlaid with gold, damascus wootz blade damascened with silver calligraphy |
A very fine Greek Ottoman sword Yataghan/Yatagan, wholy chiselled from silver and gilt throughout. 18th century |
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