A Punjabi arm guard
Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.A katar with true inlay decoration
Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.Talwar with Mamluk style blade
In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.A kirach with hunting scenes
Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.Indian pata with Solingen blade
With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.Various Indian arrows
An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.Talwar hilted shamshir
With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.Lahore talwar hilted shamshir
Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.Silver plated Tanjore spearhead
A large and heavy example with chiseled decor and silver overlaid base.Ramree veteran khukurī
Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.The khukri of Peter L. Achard
Also known as kothimora khukuri, in a scabbard with repousse silver mounts.A fine walking cane from Madras
Made of a beautiful piece of black zitan hardwood, carved in a spiral, topped with a silver knob.Sadeli walking cane
Covered almost entirely in very fine "sadeli" marquetry that is associated primarily with Gujarat.Fine dated talwar from Ratlam
With Mamluk style blade decor and inscriptions on both blade and hilt.Bhutanese sword in tribal scabbard
With early pierced iron pommel and a style of scabbard worn in Arunachal Pradesh.Early Indian khanda
An early version of this iconic Indian weapon, with its characteristic swollen tip.Early Indian fighting sword
With a recurved blade and elaborate bronze hilt decorated with chakras.Early chilanum hilt
An old bronze hilt in the shape of chilanum hilts.Simple hooded katar
Of a type that is strongly associated with the Vijayanagara empire.A fine curved Deccan katar
With beautifully shaped blade and fine, elaborately chiseled hilt.A curved Deccan katar
With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.A Deccan chilanum
With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.Katar with complex ribbed blade
A substantial example, of elegant form, with a complex grooved blade.South Indian loop hilted dagger
Introduction
Indian loop hilted dagger are generally called bichuwa (बिछुवा ) which literally mean