A Malayan Kris, with 40cm wavy damascened blade, brass cup shaped mendak, and elephant tooth Goruda bird grip, lacks scabbard; a North Indian Pesh Kabz, with T section steel blade, iron hilt with horn two piece bird's head grip studded with pewter pins (2)
Guide Price: £150-200
View Lot No. 269
A Malayan Kris, with 38cm wavy steel blade, the gilt metal compressed globular mendak with filigree and wirework decoration, with figured walnut Garuda hilt and scabbard.
Guide Price: £70-100
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A Malayan Kris, the 38cm wavy damascened steel blade pierced and fullered at the ricasso, with foliate carved hardwood grip (damaged) and wood scabbard; a Malayan Kris, with straight steel blade, brass mendak stamped with leaves, and with walnut Garuda grip and scabbard (2)
Guide Price: £100-150
View Lot No. 271
A Caucasian Kindjal, the 73cm slightly curved double edge steel blade engraved with dot and line motifs, the copper and wood grip bound with silver filigree type bands, the brass and white metal scabbard with further filigree type decoration, set with a coral glass cabochon, with plaited and embossed leather belt; a Modern Malayan Kris, with wavy blade, wood grip carved as a dancing deity, the wood scabbard carved with grotesque masks and foliage (2)
Guide Price: £80-120
View Lot No. 272
An Indian Brass and White Metal Dhal, of convex circular form, with upturned rim, chased and engraved with foliage, with four rounded rivet heads securing the ring bolts for the cushioned leather straps, 37cm diameter
View Lot No. 273
A Borneo Dyak Head Hunter's Sword (Mandau), the 54.5cm single edge curved steel blade with three fullers to the top edge, the octagonal steel grip with ringed upper section, the angular hooked bone pommel carved with foliage, the wooden scabbard bound with plaited rattan and hung with a bone disc.
Guide Price: £100-200
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A 19th Century Arab Jambiya, with double edge ribbed curved steel blade, the rhinoceros horn grip of waisted rectangular form, with gold mounts embossed with scrolls and tendrils, the gold mounted scabbard with chain link bullion thread and wrigglework decoration of leaves and tendrils, and with leather and braided strap. **Purchased in Abu Dhabi
Guide Price: £300-500
View Lot No. 275
A 19th Century Indo-Persian Talwar, with 76cm plain single edge narrow curved steel blade, with iron lozenge ecusson and compressed globular quillons, the ebony grip bound above the crossguard with silver wire, set with three silver rosettes and with silver capped beak shaped pommel embossed and chased with leaves and beadwork, with suspension ring and silver filigree backstrap.
Guide Price: £300-400
View Lot No. 276
A Congo Bone Handled Axe, carved as a man wearing a coiled copper wire headdress, with scarified face and body, standing with his hands clasped before him, on the head of another man, inserted with a small iron blade secured by bands of copper wire, 33.5cm.
View Lot No. 277
A Congo Bone Handled Axe, carved as a woman wearing a coiled copper wire headdress inset with a shell, with scarified face and body, standing with her hands clasped before her, on the head of a man, inserted with a small iron blade secured by bands of copper wire, 38cm.
View Lot No. 278