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German flintlock with Ottoman barrel

Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.
Persian mirror case attributed to Riza Al-Imami logo

Persian mirror case by Riza Al-Imami

Made of pasteboard, finely lacquered with roses and nightengales.
Early Ottoman karabela

Fine early Ottoman karabela

A fine, early example dating from around 1700 with silver gilt niello mounts.
Golden sabiki logo

Gilt Ottoman made sabiki

The long version of the jambiya, with blackened, gold inlaid blade.
Persian wootz two-pronged spearhead

Persian wootz double spearhead

Finely crafted wootz blade, and golden inlays at the base.
Persian wootz spearhead

Persian wootz spearhead

Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.
Goat hilted Khyber sword logo

Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.
Persian axe logo

Persian wootz axe

With fine chiseled decoration and largely intact koftgari.
1709 kard dagger logo

Central Asian dated kard 1709

With wootz blade inlaid in gold with the name of the maker and the owner.
Ottoman sword with twist-core blade

Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

A remarkable example of bladesmithing with a 5 row twist-core pattern that meanders over the blade.
Afghan military saber logo

Afghan military saber

With an armory stamp dated Hijri 1326, corresponding to about 1908.
Kurdish kalkan logo

Ottoman Kurdish kalkan

A small, heavily reinforced buckler as used by Ottoman Kurdish infantry.
Sabiki or wahhabite jambiya logo

Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.
Mecca jambiya

A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Dervish axe logo

A Persian crescent axe

With lacquered shaft. Previously sold at Sotheby's in 1985.
Lohar logo

Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.
Stone hilted pesh-kabz logo

Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.
Afghan dagger logo

Pashtun dagger

With blonde horn grip scales and brass plated scabbard.
Pesh kabz

Pesh kabz with horn plated hilt

An excellently designed thrusting dagger with T-spine and sharp tip.
North Indian zulfiqar sword logo

Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.
Talwar with Mamluk style blade decor

Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.
1809 yatagan

Fine Ottoman yatağan dated 1809

Made by a maker called Noah in 1809 for a certain Mehemmed Ağa Fî. With beautiful golden overlays on blade.
Yatagan dated 1790-91 logo

Yatağan dated 1790-1791

An old warhorse with several repairs.
Ottoman war arrow

Rare Ottoman war arrow

With a small, barbed armor-piercing point and early style painted shaft.
Wootz shamshir lahore hilt

Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.
Ottoman pala beset with coral and turquoises

An Ottoman coral studded pala

With gilt copper scabbard and multi-row twist-core blade.
Sindh flintlock logo

A fine Sindh flintlock

A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with almost all the gold remaining.
A Balkan boyliya paragun logo

A fine "boyliya" paragun

One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
Sindh presentation katar

A katar from Sindh

With markings suggesting it was a wedding gift, presented in 1832.
Persian dagger logo

Persian "khanjar" dagger

With finely chiseled steel hilt and scabbard
Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.
Mail shirt

Fine mail shirt, Sikh Empire

With a lozenge pattern of brass rings.
An Afghan pulouar logo

A very good Afghan pulouar

With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.
Ottoman court dagger with renaissance style decor logo

Ottoman style dagger

Fine and unusual, with Italian renaissance style decoration.
Ottoman knife by Manceaux, Paris

Ottoman knife by Manceaux, Paris

Of superior quality manufacture, combining a mix of European and Ottoman taste.
Wootz Quran box

Antique wootz Qur'an box

Description

This very well-made box is entirely made of wootz steel.

Silver Ottoman dagger

Silver mounted Ottoman dagger

Description

A nice Balkan Ottoman dagger of a type called hançer (Turkish) or 

Ottoman archery set

Ottoman bow with siper and arrows

Description

A rare Ottoman bow that has seen better days.

Ottoman bichaq logo

A silver-niello Ottoman bichaq

Description

An Ottoman bichaq, literally "knife", shaped like a yatağan, the swor

Ottoman bichaq

Ottoman bichaq (knife)

Description

An Ottoman bichaq, literally "knife", shaped like a miniature yata

Ottoman barreled gun

English rifle with Ottoman barrel

An English rifle that was built around an 18th-century Ottoman barrel of the finest quality.
Ottoman bow logo

Very fine Ottoman bow

Signed by its maker Haci Gavsî, and its decorator Tevfik.
Exceptional khyber sword

An exceptional khyber sword

The sword of the tribes living in and near the Khyber pass.