Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 01 May 2019
A quantity of edged weapons
A quantity of edged weapons, including: a Japanese spear head (yari), stout blade of flattened triangular section, the broad face with a shallow fuller and engraved with two characters, fitted to an iron mounted hilt with ribbed leather grip, the small tsuba with botanical decoration in relief, lacquered saya; a Sinhalese knife (piha-kaetta), of characteristic form, blade 8 in., silver koftgari decoration, flamboyant scrolling silver collar, silver mounted and fluted wooden scabbard with vacant pocket for a bodkin; a 19th Century horn and copper (once silvered) mounted hilt; various jambiya, and other items. [qty]