DESIRABLE

Hand dagger.

“Small Knife with Sheath” The Ottoman Empire, 18th century. Material: steel, silver, bone, horn, mother-of-pearl, enamel [1359x1920]

steel dagger with opals and velvet covered grip (source)

Gold and silver decorated sword, Italy, mid 16th century.

from The Wallace Collection

A pair of daggers with goat horn hilts, India, 19th century.

from Hermann Historica

Italian dagger with agate hilt, silver hilt and sheath, 16th century.

from The State Hermitage Museum (Russia)

Dagger, Arms and Armor

Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, nephrite, silver, gold

A Boar Spear with an integrated double barreled wheellock pistol, Germany, Saxony, ca. 1575, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Indian dagger with rock crystal hilt, decorated with gold, diamonds, and rubies, 17th or 18th century.

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Knife with crystal handle, blade inscribed “Ave Maria”

French or Spanish, ca. 1300–1350

Met Museum

Silver mounted sabre crafted by Anton Rossi, Vienna, 1807.

from The Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

A Shamshir with a hilt made entirely of gold and enameled, India, Jaipur, hilt ca. 18th century, blade ca. 17th century, housed at the Wallace Collection.

A lovely Kard with a white jade grip, India, ca. 18th century, from Czerny’s International Auction House.

I just want to take a moment to appreciate that grip, because it appears to all be carved from the same piece of jade, which is astounding, it’s absolutely beautiful.

Pistols - a goodbye gift from Napoleon Bonaparte to his son. 24th of January 1814, few days before the battle of Brienne

Arrowhead (Yanonē)H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel

Source.