6th Dec, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
149
A Japanese Shinto Wakizashi, the 57cm steel blade with billowing hamon, signed tang with single mekugi ana, two piece copper and silvered metal habaki with mon stamped decoration, the polished iron tsuba cast in low relief with stylised leaves, the black braid bound same tsuka with gilt dragon cast menuki, bronze fuchi and kashira cast and highlighted in gilt with Samurai warriors, with black lacquer saya, 89cm
Sold for £450
Estimated at £500 - £700
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 6th Dec, 2023
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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