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THE ARMOR OF SAHIB GIRAY II, KHAN OF CRIMEAA WESSON 2-TRIGGER SPORTING RIFLE FOR PRESENTATIONA RARE DAYAK SHIELD
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Timonium, MD, United States
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2013 AUCTIONS IMPERIAL ARMS & ARMOR

Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the Khan of Crimea. Register now through Liveauctioneers to bid online. THERE ARE MORE AND LARGER IMAGES OF EACH LOT SHOWN IN OUR ONLINE CATALOG AT OUR WEBSITE Questions? Call 323 851 2345
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A FINE OTTOMAN SHAMSHIR SABER: The impressive silver mounts wrought in exceptionally high relief throughout. The hilt with horn grips with rolled pommel, the guard recurved and embellished with flowering vines issuing from vases.
0218: A FINE OTTOMAN SHAMSHIR SABEREst. $4,500-$5,500
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A RARE SERBIAN NOZH DAGGER: The fine, intricately-filigreed silver hilt of yataghan form with broadly-flared, symmetrical ears set with corals on each surface. The straight, single-edged blade with profiled spine, double
0219: A RARE SERBIAN NOZH DAGGEREst. $650-$750
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AN OTTOMAN PALA SABER: Of classic form, the grips with rolled pommel and silver mounts, elegantly engraved with Ottoman geometrical-motif borders and circular cartouches containing Arabic inscriptions. The broad, T-section
0220: AN OTTOMAN PALA SABEREst. $1,800-$2,000
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AN ARAB KHANJAR DAGGER: Of Hijazi type mounted entirely in filigreed silver, the horn grip with pommel of characteristic form and raised silver bosses. The blade broad, lightly-curved and double-edged, the scabbard wrought
0221: AN ARAB KHANJAR DAGGEREst. $250-$350
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A RARE NORTH INDIAN BHUJ GLAIVE: An elaborately embellished example of characteristic form which likely originated in Bhuj, a city in the Kutch district of Gujerat.The robust, double-edged and recurved blade with pronounced central
0222: A RARE NORTH INDIAN BHUJ GLAIVEEst. $1,200-$1,400
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A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMET: The ribbed bowl with ring finial, the visor and four-lamed neck guard with rolled edges. The nasal with flared upper terminal, retained by a large, heart-shaped bolt.With black-painted
0223: A GERMAN LOBSTERTAIL HELMETEst. $800-$900
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A GEORGIAN HUNTING DAGGER: The hilt of European form, with flattened-cylindrical pommel and small, recurved, double guard in brass, engraved with tigers and prey. With bone grips and elaborately-profiled tangband, the
0224: A GEORGIAN HUNTING DAGGEREst. $400-$500
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A NORTHERN THAILAND DHA SWORD: A very large example, the mounts wrought of pewter, with ribbed, bud-form pommel and two-handed grip and brass guard with scalloped border. The handwrought, single-edged blade broadening at the tip,
0225: A NORTHERN THAILAND DHA SWORDEst. $400-$500
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A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERD: Of classic form, the massive head with ogival terminal and convex cutting edge, chiseled with cuvilineal maker’s marks and bearing the stamp of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. With
0226: A GERMAN DOLOIRE HALBERDEst. $600-$700
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A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGER: A large example with finely-profiled horn grip, and fine, silver-inlaid iron mounts. The long, broad, double-edged blade with symmetrical fullers to either side.Black leather-covered wooden scabbard
0227: A CAUCASIAN KINDJAL DAGGEREst. $400-$500
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A FINE PARANG SUMBAWA SWORD: The grip elaborately carved as a naga-head, with superbly embossed and engraved ferrule. The straight, single-edged blade with expanded tip dramatically pattern-welded.In its fine embossed and
0228: A FINE PARANG SUMBAWA SWORDEst. $600-$700
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A BEJA DAGGER: A quality example, the distinctive ebony grip with complex geometrical carving, the robust double-edged blade with central ridge. In its tooled hide scabbard with filigreed silver mounts. Latter 19th
0229: A BEJA DAGGEREst. $150-$250
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A RARE CENTRAL ASIAN BROADSWORD: A quite similar example depicted in the ninth-century fresco of a mounted Samanid ruler at Nishapur allows attribution of the form. The distinctive guardless hilt silvered or gilt, with an expanded
0230: A RARE CENTRAL ASIAN BROADSWORDEst. $1,500-$1,700
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A EUROPEAN PARTIZAN: The massive head with faceted socket retaining a single langet, expanding into a pair of cusped hooks, with pronounced central ridge throughout, and developing into a broad and continuously tapering
0231: A EUROPEAN PARTIZANEst. $200-$300
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A MORO PANABAS AXE: The long, heavy, handforged blade with distinctive curve and expanded tip showing its layered construction, the carved wooden grip with brass mounts and cord wrap intact.Mid-19th century.Overall
0232: A MORO PANABAS AXEEst. $300-$400
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A SERBIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL: Of large dimensions, with intricately carved hardwood stock and filigreed silver escutcheon plate inletted at the wrist, and brass mounts. The fine and unusual flintlock mechanism and barrel deeply
0233: A SERBIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOLEst. $500-$600
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A FINE OTTOMAN KAMA DAGGER: A rare example, the waisted grip wrought entirely of silver, the pommel and ferrule with applied filigreed panels and gilding. The fine blade straight and double-edged with continuous taper, and
0234: A FINE OTTOMAN KAMA DAGGEREst. $700-$900
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A NORTH INDIAN FIRANGI BACKSWORD: With Indian baskethiltofcharacteristic form, finely inlaid overall with intricate flowering vine motifs in silver and gold. The massive blade straight and single-edged, with triple fullers along the
0235: A NORTH INDIAN FIRANGI BACKSWORDEst. $500-$600
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A MUGHAL KARD DAGGER: The grip carved of a single section of elephant, the fine, robust blade wrought of black wootzdamascus steel with goldwork on the bolsters, and chiseled in relief at the forte with flowering lotuses
0236: A MUGHAL KARD DAGGEREst. $700-$900
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A VIETNAMESE DHA SWORD: Montagnard work, with brass guard and pommel and heavy, handforged blade. In its rattan-wrapped wooden scabbard.Late 19th-early 20th century.Overall length 94.8 cm. Condition II
0237: A VIETNAMESE DHA SWORDEst. $150-$250
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A CAUCASIAN SHASHKA SWORD: The steel hilt of characteristic form, with silver floral inlay overall, with lightly-curved single-edged blade with broad central fuller. Mid-19th century.Worn.Ex-Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester,
0238: A CAUCASIAN SHASHKA SWORDEst. $250-$350
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AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCK: A spectacular example of chiseled and pierced steel in Mannerist style, with profiled and engraved mainspring, the cock and pan with finely wrought panels depicting beings, perhaps demons, amongst
0239: AN IMPORTANT NEAPOLITAN MIQUELET LOCKEst. $900-$1,000
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A PERSIAN KHANJAR DAGGER: A rare example of symmetrical form, the finely carved, waisted walrus grip of a type popular with the Kurds. The straight, double-edged blade forged of black wootzdamascus steel with gold-inlaid
0240: A PERSIAN KHANJAR DAGGEREst. $800-$900
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