COLONIAL EDGED WEAPONS
COLONIAL EDGED WEAPONS
A KUKRI, leather sheath and two others lacking sheaths,
two small knives from kukri sheath; a Skean Dhu; and a
Swagger Stick with silver mounts, cap engraved.
A YATAGHAN, the blade Struck with mark, white
metal-mounted hilt, leather-covered scabbard, 34{in., some
rusting to blade .
A TURKISH YATAGHAN, the blade with blade smith’s
mark, hilt with bone grips, mounts with coloured stones,
leather scabbard, 31in., mid 19th Century; a Machete, by
Corms & Co., bone hilt, decorative scabbard, 26in., I9th
Century; and an Indian Kars, iron hilt, leather scabbard,
pommel cap lacking .
A MALAY KRIS, with watered flamboyant blade, wooden
hilt, brass cup, wood scabbard, min.
A DYAK MANDAU, carved bone hilt, hardwood scabbard with plaited decoration and tassel with beads.
A MALAY KRIS, straight blade, small gilt copper hilt set
with filigree wire scrolls and numerous chip diamonds,
tip of scabbard lacking.
A KINDJHAL, straight blade, horn grip, leather sheath, locket and chape, , 19th Century.
AN IVORY HILTED CONGOLESE DAGGER, broad blade
pierced with three holes, hilt shaped to form cross guard, dies
pommel, and Another similar, blade pierced with
holes, 12Hn.,
A BURMESE DHA , blade with kotare scrolls and animls,
hilt with bone grip, white metal mounts, wood scabbard.
A SHAMSHIR, plain blade, hilt with bone grips, silver-gilt
guard with engraved border s, leather scabbard with silver
mounts, 38in., 19th Century, heavily cleaned, scabbard
releathered, grip strap lacking.
A GURKHA KUKRI, leather scabbard retaining three
knives, 20in., 19th Century.
A SHOWATO BLADE, 64.1cm.t smog tuskers, signed,
arsenal mark, in gusto mounts.
Norton, C. B. and Valentine, W. J., Report to the Government of the United States on the Munitions of War exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867, New York and London 1868, green buckram covers, eighty engravings.
A KATANA BLADE, 63.4cm., smmtgt-aukuri inscribed
Bishu Osafune Kaji Masamicm Y amato Daijo Fujiwaro
Sukesada, in brown mokune LACQNRR Sayal AND a German
produced Army issue sword.
Dougall, J. D., Shooting Simplified, London 1865, 2nd
Edition, 12mo; Boutell, C., Arms and Armour, London 1893,
12mo; and Bromley-Davenport, W., Sport, London 1885,
octavo, spine torn.
A KATANA, blade 25in.s OF skmogt-zukuri form, the details obliterated, the SHORTENED TANG WITH two mekugiana, unsigned, black lacquered SCABBARD, IRON tsuba, shibuichi fuchi-kashira depicting RAIDEN CREARING a storm.
Calvert (A. F.), Spanish Arms and Armour, Being a
Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of
Madrid, 1907, original red boards, text with illustrations; and
Starkie Gardner (J.), Armour in England, 1898, text with
sixteen coloured plates and eighty illustrations, original
boards.
Two PAIRS OF SOUTH AMERICAN SPURS, one inscribed
inside Vinvie Non Virivus, the other Manus Hiec Ini Mica
Turamas, the other pair with ten-pointed rowels, the arms
with silver flower heads, 19th Century.
Two WATERCOLOURS, of the German Submarine U47,
one in profile, the other diagonally crossing a choppy sea,
both within a painted wreath with ships number, eagle and
swastika above, corners with badge, a snorting bull, both
inscribed on the bottom.
A PAINTED TIPSTAFF, body painted blue with gold VR
and initials J.B., grip with brass ferrule, c. 1850, some
wear.