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Int'l Auction of Important Antique Arms
4:00 PM PT - Mar 15th, 2008

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Auctions Imperial, LLC

10061 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake , CA 91602
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380 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
51 Lot 51

A WWII German Munitions Sword
With brass hilt and celluloid grip, retaining wire wrap and ...

150
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250
4 Bids
52 Lot 52

A British Band Sword
With rare silvered hilt, lionhead pommel and recurved quillo...

125
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150
3 Bids
53 Lot 53

A Dutch Model 1898 Klewang Cutlass
With stamped steel guard, the stout single-edged blade with ...

125
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150
15 Bids
54 Lot 54

A Danish Cadet's Sword
Hilt of brass with drooping quillon and knucklebow and short...

325
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350
6 Bids
55 Lot 55

A Persian Spearhead
A rare type, Qajar-era, with four-bladed head etched overall...

100
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200
15 Bids
56 Lot 56

A Prussian 1889 Infantry Officer's Degen Sword
With brass hilt and sharkskin-covered grip set with Kaiser W...

150
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250
12 Bids
57 Lot 57

A Philippines Golok Knife
Of typical form, the carved wooden grip faceted with upswept...

50
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75
4 Bids
58 Lot 58

A Boxer Rebellion Chinese Sword
Excavated, of archaic form with ring pommel, wooden grips an...

100
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200
5 Bids
59 Lot 59

A Boxer Rebellion Chinese Sword
As above, with extended quillons. 72 cm overall length. Cond...

100
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200
8 Bids
60 Lot 60

A Japanese Tsuba
Pierced iron, Kinai school with aoi leaf motif. Edo period. ...

150
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200
8 Bids
61 Lot 61

A Moro Keris
Waved blade with piercing and fretwork and separately applie...

100
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200
13 Bids
62 Lot 62

A Pair of Ottoman Stirrups
Of typical form, iron with silver and gold inlays. 18th-19th...

200
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300
23 Bids
63 Lot 63

A Colonial Espada Ancha Sword
Of rare type, with blacksmith-forged hilt, the horn grip wit...

500
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700
8 Bids
64 Lot 64

A Continental Bandsman's Shortsword
The cast brass hilt of typical form, with straight, double-e...

150
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200
2 Bids
65 Lot 65

A Japanese Tsuba
Chiseled iron, Hagi-Choshu school with leaf motif. Edo perio...

150
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200
5 Bids
66 Lot 66

A WWII Era China Placque
A rare item, depicting Adolph Hitler in profile with German ...

100
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150
12 Bids
67 Lot 67

A Tibetan Main Powder Charger
Of substantial proportions, made from a single section of fa...

100
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200
3 Bids
68 Lot 68

A Tibetan Dagger
The grip of bone, blade fullered and chisel-tipped. Sheath o...

50
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75
7 Bids
69 Lot 69

A Curved Kindjal
Probably Georgian or Armenian work, the horn grips set with ...

300
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500
7 Bids
70 Lot 70

A Transcaucasian Yataghan Sword
Of rare type, grips of horn bound with green leather strips,...

200
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300
12 Bids
71 Lot 71

A Salawar or Khyber Knife
Afghan work of unusually large proportions, the grip with el...

250
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350
9 Bids
72 Lot 72

An Ottoman Hancer Dagger
Of rare type, with symmetrical iron grip retaining traces of...

400
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500
1 Bid
73 Lot 73

A Mediterranean Dagger
Probably Neapolitan work, the grip of carved bone, represent...

1,000
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1,500
13 Bids
80 Lot 80

Five African Edged Weapons
Including three swords and two spearheads, most from the Kub...

100
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200
8 Bids
81 Lot 81

An African Sickle Axe
Of unusual form, head well-forged with bud terminal. Probabl...

50
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100
21 Bids
82 Lot 82

An African Sword
Probably Kuba region, double-edged blade of complex cross-se...

25
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50
16 Bids
83 Lot 83

An African Sword
Probably Azande, asymmetrical blade with raised backedge to ...

25
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50
2 Bids
84 Lot 84

A French Smallsword
Well-chiseled steel hilt with lobed guard, grip with copper ...

900
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1,000
3 Bids
85 Lot 85

An Anglo-Indian Hunting Knife
Of large proportions with curled metal pommel and guard and ...

100
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150
12 Bids
86 Lot 86

A Cuphilt Rapier
Probably Spanish, with deep cup of typical form, embossed, c...

1,500
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1,800
52 Bids
87 Lot 87

A Palestinian Saber
Of rare type, with angular horn grips. The heavy, single-edg...

100
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200
3 Bids
88 Lot 88

A Persian Shield
All steel, of domed circular form with four central grip-bos...

200
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300
33 Bids
89 Lot 89

A Persian Mace
Of steel, the head forged in the form of a bull's head and i...

150
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250
23 Bids
90 Lot 90

A French Court Sword
Pierced and beaded hilt and guard gilt overall, straight, do...

850
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950
3 Bids
91 Lot 91

A Bosnian Dagger
Probably made at Sarajevo, the eared grips of bone inlaid wi...

100
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150
4 Bids
92 Lot 92

A Mediterranean Dagger
Possibly Spanish, the wooden grip of plug-form mounted in en...

400
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500
18 Bids
93 Lot 93

An Ethiopian Sword
Of :gurade: type, the unusually long, curved and fullered bl...

650
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750
3 Bids
94 Lot 94

A Tibetan Dagger
For wear on the belt, grip of metal-mounted bone with short,...

50
-
100
7 Bids
95

A Tibetan Dagger
As above, the pommel and sheath with simple copper, brass an...

50
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100
10 Bids
96 Lot 96

A Chinese Dagger
Of archaic form, with bone grips set with copper studs and l...

100
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200
5 Bids
97 Lot 97

A Tibetan Tinder Pouch
The body of leather, mounted in brass and silver appliques a...

50
-
100
12 Bids
98 Lot 98

A Tibetan Tinder Pouch
As above, mounted in embossed brass and silver plaques and s...

50
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100
8 Bids
99 Lot 99

A Tibetan Tinder Pouch
As above, mounted in embossed brass and silver plaques and s...

50
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100
1 Bid
100 Lot 100

A Tibetan Tinder Pouch
As above, mounted in embossed silver plaques and set with a ...

50
-
100
2 Bids
101 Lot 101

An Ethiopian Sword
Of :gurade: type, with European curved and fullered blade, t...

250
-
300
24 Bids
102 Lot 102

An Indian Shield
Hardened leather of domed, circular, form, set with four pie...

300
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400
10 Bids
103 Lot 103

A Javanese Klewang Sword
The horn grip elaborately carved, the pommel formed as a lio...

200
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300
3 Bids
104 Lot 104

An Arab Dagger
Probably Marsh Arab, with horn grip of typical form with rop...

100
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200
9 Bids
105 Lot 105

A Sinhalese Piha Kaetta Dagger
Of typical form with silver-mounted ivory grip incised and e...

300
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500
4 Bids
106 Lot 106

An Akinakes Dagger
Of rare type, probably Achaemenid. Forged entirely of iron w...

200
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300
14 Bids
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