Dagger from a Rifle Set
- Dated: 1732-1733 (Early Modern)
- Culture: Turkish
- Medium: steel, decorated with gold, rubies (or spinels), beryls
- Measurements: 1 3/4 x 11 13/16 x 5/8 in. (4.4 x 30 x 1.7 cm)
Source & Copyright: The Walters Art Museum
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Ceremonial Sword
- Dated: 18th century
- Culture: Eastern Tibet or Mongolia
- Medium: Steel blade, jade handle; silver sheath inlaid with coral and turquoise; silk tassel
- Measurements: 21 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (54.6 x 8.89 cm)
Source: © Museum Associates 2011 - LACMA
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Indian Battleaxe
- Dated: mid-late 19th century
- Measurements: overall length 77cm
The massive steel head chiseled overall with floral work and the Hindu god Krishna flanked by two gopis, all inlaid in brass within pavilions topped by brass parasols. With steel top spike and hardwood haft.
Source & Copyright: Auction Flex
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The Sword of His Serene Highness Ludwig Adolf Peter, Prince Of Sayn-Wittgenstein
- The sword is mounted in three colours of gold, features Vienna Gold Marks for 1803, and the maker’s mark of Josef Wolfgang Schmidt
- Measurements: 74cm; 29 1/8in blade
- Sidenote: His Serene Highness Ludwig Adolf Peter, Prince Of Sayn-Wittgenstein (1769-1843) was the Imperial Russian Field Marshal And ‘The Saviour Of St. Petersburg’ in 1812
The sword comes with a curved double-edged blade towards the point, cut with a long shallow fuller on each side, etched and gilt with scrolls of foliage. It features a grenadier and a trophy on a blued panel, etched and gilt with a hatched pattern at the forte.
Finely chased hilt in three colours of gold, the principal areas against a punched recessed ground, comprising a pair shield-shaped langets each decorated with a large acanthus leaf. It has vertically recurved quillons decorated with laurel foliage, the rear stamped with marks and formed with a hemispherical finial.
The forward joined to a robust knuckle chain joined at the top to the pommel by a scrolling bracket decorated en suite, tapering grip with a central panel of scale pattern bordered by beadwork panels and a running pattern of scrolls and diamond-shaped panels.
The top portion is surmounted by a pair of oak fruit and foliage festoons, finely fluted pommel, oval pommel cap chased with matching scrolls enclosing an expanded flowerhead. The original wooden scabbard is entirely covered with polished fishskin, fitted with gold chape, locket and a pair of bands all finely chased en suite with the hilt.
Source & Coryright: Thomas del Mar
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Deadliest Warrior: Viking (478 kills) vs. Samurai (522 kills).
Personally like the European weapons better but not mad with these results. Both are very deadly and got a lot of kills
