#artefatti

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Saber (Talwar) with Scabbard Indian blade dated 1673 CE; hilt, 19th century Via X

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Questa scarpa scita di 2300 anni fa, scoperta sui monti Altai, si è conservata alla perfezione per oltre due millenni

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Pair of Flintlock Pistols Gunsmith: Giovan Battista Francino (Italian) ca. 1686 Via X

The pistols are inscribed in Latin Viena Liberata (Vienna liberated) and Buda Superata (Buda captured) in commemoration of the two major events, in 1683 and 1686, in the war between Austria and Turkey.

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Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great Gunsmith: Johan Adolph Grecke (Russian) 1786 Via X

These pistols are part of a deluxe garniture of ivory-stocked hunting arms made for Empress Catherine the Great (reigned 1762–96), whose intial (E for Ekaterine) is on the escutcheons of the grips. The garniture, which originally consisted of these pistols, a fowling piece dated 1786 (National Museum, Warsaw), and a rifle (whereabouts unknown), was later given to her favorite, Prince Stanislas August Poniatowski (1732–1798), whom she backed as king of Poland (reigned 1763–95). Firearms with ivory stocks, generally out of fashion in western Europe by the eighteenth century, were in vogue in the ostentatious Russian court during the last quarter of the century.

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Various Daggers (Jambiya) & Sheaths

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Kris with Sheath Philippine, Tawi-Tawi 18th–19th century

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Dopo un'accurata pulizia, questa croce anglosassone di 1000 anni fa mostra la magnificenza di ogni suo dettaglio                             

foto: National Museum of Scotland

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Miquelet Pistol Caucasian (possibly Georgia or Circassia) 1846–47 CE Via X