Arms, Armour & Militaria

A FINE LONG KATANA WITH A BLACK LACQUER SAYANakago (tang): signed Higo (no) Kami Akamatsu Taro Kaneteru Saku and dated on the reverse Heisei 4 Nen...

A KATANA IN BLACK LACQUERED SAYA Sugata (configuration): shallow shinogi-zukuri (with a raised ridge), tori-zori (even curve) Kitae (forging patte...

A KATANA IN BLACK RIBBED LACQUERED SAYASugata (configuration): shallow tori-zori (even curvature)Hamon (tempering pattern): faint, but gunome (sma...

A KO-GATANASugata (configuration): ubu (unaltered) koshi-zori (low centre of curvature), chu-kissaki (medium point)Hamon (tempering pattern): narr...

A CHISA-KATANA, PROBABLY MUROMACHI PERIODSugata (configuration): shinogi-zukri (raised ridge line), habaki (collar on the blade) is copper with a ...

A JAPANESE SHIN-GUNTOSugata (configuration): shinogi-tsukuri (raised ridge) with shallow tori-zori (even curve)Hamon (tempering pattern): gunome m...

A KATANA IN A DARK LACQUERED SAYASugata (configuration): o-suriage (greatly shortened), with bo-hi (double grooves) which are continued into the n...

A KATANA ADAPTED FOR MILITARY USESugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (raised ridge) with koshi-zori (low curvature)Hamon (tempering pattern): a...

A KO-KATANA IN BLACK LACQUERED SAYASugata (configuration): tori-zori (evenly curved)Hamon (tempering pattern): irregular and appears to be mostly ...

A KATANA, SHINTO PERIODSugata (configuration): with a shallow tori-zori (even curve) and bo-hi (groove)Hamon (tempering pattern): irregular midare...

A KATANA IN A BLACK LACQUER SAYASugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (raised ridge line) with chu-kissaki (medium sized point) and shallow tori-...

A SHIN GUNTO, SHOWA PERIODHamon (tempering pattern): shallow sanbon-tsuji (three cedar shaped)Nakago (tang): two mekugi-ana (peg holes) and a Seki...

A SHIN-GUNTO, SHOWA PERIODSugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (ridge line)Hamon (tempering pattern): unclear because of conditionNakago (tang):...

AN ITO-MAKI-TACHISugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (with a ridge), tori-zori (evenly curved)Hamon (tempering pattern): regular sabontsugi (th...

˜A SHORT IVORY TACHI Sugata (configuration): hira-zukuri (no ridge line) Hamon (tempering pattern): no details available due to condition Koshirae...

˜AN IVORY TACHI WITH RELIGIOUS AND SAMURAI CARVINGS Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (ridged) Hamon (tempering pattern): suguha (straight l...

A WAKIZASHI WITH A MUZORI BLADESugata (configuration): muzori (no curvature)Kitae (forging pattern): condition prevents full appraisal of the jiha...

A SHOBU-ZUKURI WAKIZASHISugata (configuration): shobu-zukuri (simple ridge line), copper habaki (collar) with a breaking wave designHamon (temperi...

A SLIM WAKIZASHI IN SHIRA-SAYAHamon (tempering pattern): appears to be ko-mokume (small wood grain like pattern), but all other details of the for...

A WAKIZASHI IN SHIRA-SAYASugata (configuration): of shobu-zukuri (with no vertical line - yokote) formHamon (tempering pattern): faint traces visi...

A WAKIZASHIHamon (tempering pattern): details obscured by corrosionNakago (tang): mumei (unsigned) with sujikai yasuri (sloping file marks)Koshira...

A JAPANESE ARTILLERY OFFICER~S SWORD, SHOWA PERIODof European naval design with a blade with bo-hi (groove) and an artificially pointed hamon (tem...

A HIRA-ZUKURI TANTO, PROBABLY MUROMACHI PERIODHamon (tempering pattern): obscured by rubbing but may be choji-gunome (clove pattern)Nakago (tang):...

A BONE MOUNTED WAKIZASHI, PROBABLY 20TH CENTURYSugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (with a ridge line)Hamon (tempering pattern): no details ava...

SIX JAPANESE TSUBAof various designs and ages, including mumei (unsigned) copper wakizashi with dragon design; mokko-gata (lobed) shakudo-nanako (...

A JAPANESE SILVER TSUBA, POSSIBLY EARLY EDO PERIODround silver tsuba (hand guard) depicting several armoured samurai on both horseback and on foot...

A JAPANESE LACQUERED QUIVER (UTSUBO) AND FIVE ARROWS, EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURYthe first of characteristic form, lacquered black, the outer surface...

THIRTY THREE JAPANESE EDO STYLE ARROWS, 20TH CENTURYeach with two-stage iron tip, bamboo shafts fitted with three feather flights (minor losses) o...

A JAPANESE QUIVER (YADZUTSU) AND FOUR ARROWS, EDO PERIOD, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURYthe first with hardened leather body carved with a spirallin...

A JAPANESE BOW (YUMI), EDO PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURYwith black lacquered body with bands of densely wrapped rattan over its surface (small losses)...

A RARE CHINESE QUIVER (JEBELE), QING DYNASTY, FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURYwith hinged body of leather covered with red cloth (faded), the border...

A CHINESE COMMANDER~S ARROW AND CASE, QING DYNASTYwith flat spatulate iron head, wooden haft, long feather flight (losses), fitted with a contempo...

A CROSSBOW IN THE CHINESE HAN DYNASTY STYLE OF 206-220 B.C., AND THREE FURTHER BOWS, 20TH CENTURYthe first probably by Edward McEwen with black-pa...

A CHINESE COMPOSITE BOW, QING DYNASTY, MID-19TH CENTURYwith reflexed limbs faced with horn at the front, fishskin-covered wooden ears stained gree...

A CHINESE LIGHT COMPOSITE BOW (HAOGONG), QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURYwith broad reflexed limbs faced with horn at the front, cork-covered woode...

A CHINESE MANCHU STYLE COMPOSITE BOW, QING DYNASTY, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURYwith reflexed limbs faced with horn at the front, fishskin-cove...

A CHINESE COMPOSITE BOW, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY; AND A CHINESE BOW BY YANG FUXI OF JU YUAN HAOthe first with reflexed limbs faced with horn at...

A FINE OTTOMAN COMPOSITE BOW, DATED 1212 A.H. (CIRCA 1797-98)with reflexed limbs swelling at the grip, the front faced with horn, the inner surfac...

AN INDO-PERSIAN COMPOSITE BOW, 18TH/19TH CENTURYwith reflexed limbs wrapped in birch bark, wooden ears, the front and back decorated with linear p...

FIVE INDIAN AND PERSIAN COMPOSITE BOWS, 18TH/19TH CENTURYthe first with Persian, reflexed limbs painted over its surface with courtly hunting scen...

EIGHTEEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS, RAJASTHAN, 18TH/19TH CENTURYwith bamboo shafts, including a whistling arrow, with painted bulbous head; three for ga...

A CASED SET OF EIGHTEEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURYeach with conical iron tip, bamboo shaft painted with polychrome bands of flowe...

AN ENGLISH WOODEN QUIVER, MID- 19TH CENTURY, TWELVE ARROWS AND A CASED SET OF TEN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURYthe first of tapering rectangular section, t...

A LONGBOW BY EDWARD MCEWEN AND FOUR FURTHER BOWS, 20TH CENTURYthe first of laminated layers of wood, signed ~McEwen, Wanstead~ above the grip and ...

EIGHT COMPOSITE BOWS BY EDWARD MCEWENincomplete, comprising two in Chinese Manchu style, each with reflexed limbs faced with horn and wrapped with...

TWO TRIBAL BOWS, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURYthe first probably Oceania, formed of a long section of bamboo tapering to a slender terminal top and botto...

[AP] FOUR CHINESE BRONZE SWORDS (JIAN), PROBABLY ZHOU DYNASTY OR EARLY WARRING STATES (1050-221 BC)each in excavated condition, cast in one piece,...

[AP] FOUR CHINESE BRONZE SWORDS (JIAN), PROBABLY ZHOU DYNASTY OR EARLY WARRING STATES (1050-221 BC)each in excavated condition, cast in one piece,...

[AP] THREE CHINESE BRONZE HALBERDS AND THREE DAGGER-AXES (GE), PROBABLY ZHOU DYNASTY OR EARLY WARRING STATESin excavated condition, cast in one pi...

[AP] A WEST EUROPEAN BRONZE SPEARHEAD, 3000-1500 B.C. AND TEN FURTHER BRONZE WEAPONSin excavated condition, the first with leaf-shaped head formed...

[AP] A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 17TH CENTURYwith double-edged blade swelling to a ~Cobra~s head~ tip, steel hilt formed with a pair of en...

[AP] AN INDIAN SHORTSWORD (SOSUN PATAH), LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURYwith slightly curved single-edged blade of finely watered steel, formed with a rein...

[AP] AN INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 18TH CENTURYwith European broad curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a pair of long slender ful...

[AP] A COORG KNIFE (AYDA KATTI), LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AN NEPALESE RAM DAO AND A GLAIVE, 19TH CENTURYthe first with broad hatchet-shaped b...

[AP] TWO INDIAN SHORTSWORDS, 19TH CENTURYeach with broad blade of ayda katti type, the first with chiseled khanda-style hilt extending over the lo...

[AP] TWO INDIAN CRUTCH SWORDS (ZAFAR TAKIEH) FORMED ENTIRELY OF IRON, 19TH CENTURY the first with blade of tapering square-section, threaded at th...

[AP] AN INDIAN THROWING RING (CHAKRAM), A SOUTHEAST ASIAN SPEARHEAD, A MALAYSIAN SHORTSWORD (KRIS) AND TWO INDIAN DAGGERS, 19TH CENTURY the first ...

[AP] AN ARAB SWORD (NIMCHA), AN INDIAN AXE, A DETACHED SWORD BLADE, A SCABBARD FOR A TALWAR AND TWO LANCE SHOES, 19TH CENTURY the first with curve...

˜[AP] AN OTTOMAN SHORTSWORD (YATAGHAN), LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY AND THREE FURTHER OTTOMAN SHORTSWORDS (YATAGHAN), TURKEY AND NORTH AFRICA...

[AP] A RARE OTTOMAN LEG DEFENCE, TURKEY, LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY formed of a shaped main plate embossed with a slender rib and stamped with t...