Arms and Armour
Catalog Information: 542 lots | 181 with images
Date: 2004
Auction House:
Bonhams
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: A Turkish Jambiya, And A Bhutanese Dagger The First 19th Century
The first with curved blade, and waisted white-metal hilt roughly chased with foliage on one side and set with brass filigree on the other, in original brass scabbard decorated en suite; the second with single-edge blade, characteristic waisted hilt [...more]
Lot 2: Two Caucasian Kindjals 19th Century
The first with broad tapering double-edged blade with deep off-set fuller on each side and damascened in gold with birds heads and panels containing cursive inscriptions, and waisted dark horn grip-scales with gold-damascened steel mounts; the second [...more]
Lot 3: A North African Nimcha, And A Sword The First 18th/19th Century
The first with slightly curved single-edged blade fullered along the back-edge on each side and struck with two marks on one side of the forte and with a single mark on the other, characteristic hilt retaining traces of engraved and silver-damascened [...more]
Lot 4: A Large Burmese Dha
Of charateristic form, with single-edged blade decorated over its entire length on each side in silver against a hatched ground with male and female figures, Burmese inscriptions and foliage, and with tapering hilt and globular pommel entirely covere [...more]
Lot 5: A Wakizashi Unsigned, Shinto
The hira-zukuri blade with one mekugi-ana, suguha hamon, fully bound tsuka with shakudo nanako fuchi-kashira decorated with insects including a mantis and foliage in gold, silver and shakudo within gilt rims, soft-metal menuki in the form of pots, an [...more]
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