Gilded cuphilt sword with long double edged blade with one fuller. Gilded bronze guard is engraved with lively rococo floral patterns. Blade bears maker mark on fuller: En Toledo Thomas De Aialia.

Spain was one of the last countries to discard the deadly thrusting swords rapiers. These long bladed swords modelled to pierce opponents body were still living in officers sword patterns and giving forms of the former duelling swords.

Our sword is purely officer sword with regular lenght blade but handle is unusually made in a semicup form. Thomas De Ayala was a very famous Toledo smith in early 17th century and it was very customery that later smiths copied famous names and markings on their blades. So the true maker of our sword remains unknown. Altough we could be quite certain it was made in Toledo or it's surroundings. Style of the asymmetrical floral patterns and form of the blade gives us a dating to mid 18th century.

Lenght: 100cm blade 82cm
2600eur

Valnut stocked iron mounted carbine with octagonal barrel and rounded banana shaped lockplate. Caliber 12mm rifled. Maker marked VB

All features of this big butted museum quality carbine give us dating around 1680's . Period when carbines were made for hunting on horseback, but also efficient and easy to use on short range by foot. Those days the chase was mostly running the deers to certain areas surmounted by hunting nets and hunters had to be ready to confront wild deers or hogs. Short huntingswords and carbines were most safe at these wild and fast occasions when aiming and longrange shooting was not so relevant.

The patchboxcover of our flintlock is nicely engraved with a picture of lion; animal of strenght and wilderness. Cheek piece is engraved by mating deers and on top of the stock is a bear blowing a bagpipe. Very unusual scenerys on a hunting weapons of that time.

Octagonal barrel is marked by makers intials VB unknown to this day. Mark is known in books to be a master worked in Saxony c.1660-1690.

Lenght 84 cm
Ref. Neue Stokel 1 p.181
6500eur

Continental high quality hunting hanger with gilded brass mounts and agat handle. Form and decoration more neoclassical than rococo, which gives a dating around 1780-1810. Leather scabbard with gilded brass mounts and clean blade.

All swords and daggers with hardstone grips were most expencive and concidered as a noble or royal weponry. Stone was allways expencive to obtain and work.

Nice condition throughout, small crump at the tip of the scabard mount.

Total lenght 56 cm.
4400eur

Ivory griped 7mm caliber revolver using cartridge system by Le Facheux-pinfire. Typical pepperbox type of pistol where revolving drum is acting as a barrel. Frame and drum decorated with golden wine leaves on a russeted backround.

Frame was originally browned or blued but now showing only dark brown colour.

In the front of the drum is a small stamp: Lepage. The most famous gun manufacturers in Belgium who established their company in 1790. They started the bench testing and bigger company 1810. Well known maker who produced many royal weaponry during first half of the 19th century.

Short lived pinfire system was in vast use before central and rimfire cartridges. Ignition happened by gunhammer hitting the protruding pin inside the cartridge.

Nice conditioned pistol. Missing it's small ejector pin which was screwed in the botom of the grip.

Licence free.

Total lenght 13cm
Price. 1200eur

European mameluk officer sabre c.1800-1820. Curved sabre with ivory handle and gilt mounts. Blade has a decoration on a blued ground and mounts are nicely engraved with Turkish crescent moon.

Steel scabbard has remains of the blueing to make a contrast to gilt bronze mounts.

Our sabre is a heavy cavalry form and most propably was used by high ranked officer. The form of the crossguard and gilt mounts suggests England or French origin, but style of the blade decoration is more close to Portugal. It was very fashionable during the Napoleonic period and little after that oriental style and decoration made its way to European court rooms and balls.

Very fine exampleof the empire period .

Total lenght. 92cm
Price. 5500eur