Combat Shield
Kurdish culture, Ottoman Empire
16th - 18th century
Wrought iron, coins, cloth and wood
Diameter: 27.5; height: 11 cm
A round shield consisting of a wooden core with woven basketr[...]
A unique antique bronze sword or hilt pommel with 4 carved images: 2 grotesques, one of a woman and a cherub and one yet to be defined (it looks like two people are involved). An addition in the form [...]
TSUBA Naga Maru Gata
Japan
Azuchi Momoyama period (1573-1603)
Iron, brass and copper
H. 6.1, W 5.5 cm, Thickness 3 mm
H. Nakago Hitsu Ana: 2.4 cm
Tsuba featuring a stylised wheel, in openwork [...]
TSUBA Maru Gata
Japan
Azuchi Momoyama period (1573-1603)
Iron, brass and copper
H. 8, W 7.9 cm, Thickness 5 mm
H. Nakago Hitsu Ana: 2.7 cm
(slightly missing)
Tsuba in the form of a stylised o[...]
In the center of the field is engraved an imperial eagle with haloed heads. The composition is completed by five shields interrupting the legend and bearing the arms of Austria, Styria, Carniola, Cari[...]
Nihonto Katana
Signed "Kunishige" 国重
XIV-XVth century
Muromachi period (1333–1573)
Original Koshirae from the Edo period
Japan
Very good condition
This katana is a large 88.6 cm sword, relative[...]
Japanese Katana sword, the blade mounted in shirasaya, signed Bishu Osafune Kiyomitsu Saku Kore Eiroku and dated August 1558. Tsuka braided in purple silk on white shagreen. Menukis depicting buffaloe[...]
This weapon is a "Storta", which is a short saber of Italian origin from the Renaissance era, deriving from the medieval falchion of the first half of the 14th century, with which it is sometimes conf[...]
A beautifully designed sword hanging hook. The acorn at the top like the fruit of the oak; for this reason, she was considered a symbol of latent strength. The belt would have passed through the folde[...]
War hammers are rare on the market, and their price is always relatively high. This can be dated to the end of the 16th or the first half of the 17th century. These weapons, often unknown to the gener[...]
This fine left hand ring dagger has a very unusual shaped hilt. It can be dated to the first half of the 17th century, or even the last quarter of the 16th century. it is probably Italian .
BLADE: A[...]
POWDER PEAR
Germany, 16th century
Andouiller, nickel silver and iron
H. 16.5 cm, W 8.5 cm
A powder flask made from a section of deer antler with iron and nickel silver fitt[...]
Rare model of a spinning wheel pistol, in wrought iron, work from the Nuremberg workshops (Bavaria, Germany), ceremonial object or cabinet of curiosities, vintage late 16th-early 17th centuries. This [...]
splendid small tanto with old blade from the koto period 16th, with its Hozon papers from the NBTHK
mounted in superb late Edo, early Meiji mounts
in solid silver with decorations of flowers and lib[...]
This is a quality halberd point. The model is called "birds" or "parrots", "ibises", or even "hawks" depending on the authors.
The dating of this type of halberd is generally from the second half of [...]
This rapier is typical of military rapiers from the very beginning of the 17th century. The blade is probably older, since it is comparable in shape to that of a rapier of Charles V dating from 1550-[...]
Child's Armor Armband
Italy
Late 16th century
Iron, leather and gold
H. 11; L 7.5 cm
This armband is made of riveted wrought iron, fully articulated and decorated with engraving, chasing and[...]
A cabasset is a type of helmet used in Europe by infantry and light cavalry from the first half of the 16th century until the 17th century. The name comes from the Spanish word capacete, meaning "litt[...]
JAPAN - Edo period (1603-1868) the kabuto is made up of 36 strips of brown lacquered wrought iron. THEHEN NO ANA (opening at the top) in copper at 3 degrees SHIKORO (neck cover) at 4 degrees in black [...]
Pair Of Stirrups
Germany
Maximilian period, early 16th century
Wrought iron
H. 13; L 12 cm
Pair of wrought iron stirrups with flared branches, openwork with six serrated columns, the upper part[...]
Wakizashi with a shortened Naginata blade. Recently polished blade. It dates from the Muromachi period, around 1550. The handle is made of carved wood, which makes it an interesting feature. Black lac[...]
The typology of this sword poses no problem: It is a Katzbalger, Lansquenet's short sword.
The shape of its handle, which differs from the models considered typical, is a rather reassuring thing, as [...]
Set of two tsuba. One is from the Muromachi period, made of iron. The other is from the Edo period, decorated with a bamboo. Dimension for the first 6 cm Dimension for the second 6.6 cm
Large TSUBA, Japanese sword guard.
Japan, MUROMACHI period (1333 - 1573)
Diameter: 9,8cm - Weight : 115g - H. Nakago-Ana : 3cm
Iron Ko-katsushi maru gata with openwork kage-sukashi decoration of [...]
Exceptional Japanese arrowhead. It is exceptional for its size: 16 cm of nagasa for a total length of 61 cm. She is polite. Muromachi Period Signed KANEMITSU Sold with its support. Plus shipping costs[...]
rare model with a long length, a high slit in the back, no shoulder reinforcements and a front closure without cuffs indicating Momoyama dating • circa 1600 The two horizontal stripes are also made of[...]
Tetsu Kuro Urushi 62 Ken Sofukurin Soshu Kabuto
(Black lacquered iron 62 ken Sofukurin Kabuto from the Soshu school)
Japanese helmet comprised of 62 iron plates, covered in black lacquer dating [...]
IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, DIFFICULT TO DATE, RARE PIECE AS IS, FROM CARCASSONNE APPROXIMATELY CITE LENGTH 32 CM, VERY NICE PATINA FREE DELIVERY, FOR FRANCE, BY RECOMMENDED COLISSIMO WITH PERSONAL COLLEC[...]
Superb and rare late 16th century powder flask from the south of France or Italy. trapezoidal in shape, it is composed of a wooden body covered with shagreen and decorated on the sides with 2 openwork[...]
Renaissance powder flask in deer antler engraved with a nude Diana in the bath holding a palm and a tree trunk on the back. Two silver chains complete it.
Superb and old DAISHO Koto from the Muromachi period (16th century), composed of a Tachi Mumei blade appraised and certified by the N.B.T.H.K and by Sato Kanzan "Sue-mihara" and a Wakizashi blade, Mum[...]
Wakisashi from the Muromachi period signed Bishu Osafune Ju Sukesada. Strong blade presenting a hada in itame, and a tempering line in suguha Polished blade, mounted in shirasaya. 56cm Nagasa.
Steel spearhead, mounted on gilded bronze incised on one side with a large animal, certainly a bear, overthrowing a mosque in flames (the overturned building is surmounted by a crescent). The other si[...]
HACHE
Eastern Europe, 15th - 16th century
Wrought iron, wood, silver and brass
Length : 55,5 ; L. : 13,5 cm
(old missing)
The axe iron can be dated to the 15th or 16th century and its style d[...]
Armor Breastplate For Equestrian Parade
Italy, 16th century
Wrought iron and brass
Length: 43.5 cm; L: 15.5 cm
Plastron with flat diamond-shaped links in iron inlaid with brass. They are centr[...]
It is a rare spear for wolf hunting, of clearly superior quality to the rare other specimens encountered.
The iron has 2 teeth, like all the forks made for wolf hunting.
They are of square section, [...]
Genuine DAISHO Koto from the Muromachi period (16th century), having belonged to a Samurai family, which alone had the right to wear a Daisho and composed of a blade of Tachi Mumei appraised and certi[...]
Exceptional, very beautiful and very rare powerful blade by Tachi Sue Koto (1580 - 16th century), Zaimei signed SUKESADA, 2nd generation with his Koshirae (without Shirasaya).
Certificate issued b[...]
Very beautiful and very rare Wakizashi with its very beautiful Koto Shobu zukuri Zaimei blade, signed OSAFUNE SUKEMITSU with its Koshirae in black lacquer, painted with a magnificent flaming dragon.
[...]
Koto blade, very thin, very light, very beautiful and old from Tachi, from the Muromachi Period (16th century), Zaimei (signed) "SHIMADA SUKEMUNE" in his Shirasaya. NBTHK KICHO (important work, equiva[...]
Menpo Ryubu style
Momoyama period, late 16th, early 17th
very pronounced and typical shape
onion nose
artificial structure on the iron
the lacquer inside half edo
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