An important and early bronze portrait medallion of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror (reg. 1444-1446 and 1451-1481) Italy, circa 1450of...

A silver-mounted miquelet rifle Algeria, dated AH 1263/ AD 1846the watered steel barrel clasped by five repoussé silver capouchines decorated in f...

A fine Mughal walrus ivory-hilted watered-steel lion head dagger North India, 17th Centurythe double-edged watered-steel blade with armour piercin...

A fine gold-koftgari watered-steel push dagger (katar) South India, 17th/ 18th Centurythe double-edged watered-steel blade of slightly curved form...

A gold-koftgari steel push dagger (katar) North India, 18th/ 19th Centurythe double-edged steel blade with armour piercing tip, recessed to each s...

A fine Mughal gold-koftgari watered-steel saddle axe (tabarzin) North India, 17th/ 18th Centuryof typical form, the haft decorated in gold overlay...

A Mughal jade-hilted gold-koftgari steel dagger (khanjar) North India, 18th Centurythe double-edged steel blade of curved form, the forte decorate...

A silver hilted steel dagger (kukri) Nepal, 19th Centurythe curved blade widening towards the point, the silver hilt with flaring pommel, decorate...

An unusual war scythe (matchu) with pommel from the hilt of a sword from the armoury of Tipu Sultan Mysore and South India, late 18th and 19th C...

A silver-hilted finely watered-steel dagger (khyber) North India, 18th/ 19th Centurythe single-edged watered steel blade of tapering form with fla...

A saddle axe (tabarzin) bearing the name of Maharaja Jung Bahadur (reg. 1846-1856) India or Nepal, 19th Centurythe steel axe head of crescent form...

A silver hilted steel sword Indonesia, 18th Centurythe single-edged steel blade of curved form, the forte mounted with openwork triangular silver ...

A Singhalese coral-mounted kastane Sri Lanka, 19th Centurythe single-edged steel blade of curved form with octagonal grip, knuckle guard and quill...

Joseph Davey Cunningham, A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej John Murray, London, 1853second editio...

A group of sixteen letters from the Maharajahs of Patiala, Kapurthala, Jind and Faridkot, to various addressees, including Stanley Baldwin, former...