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Antique African Swords

North African Sword (Nimcha), Morocco, Early 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
North African Sword (Nimcha), Morocco, Early 19th Century This North African sword, known as a
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Late 19th Century Antique African Swords

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Wrought Iron

Poto African Iron Sword, Congo Africa on Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Poto African sword, Congo Africa on stand. A forged iron sword with fine incised design, inlaid
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Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Wrought Iron

African Topoke Sword Currency on Custom Stand
Located in Atlanta, GA
An African iron currency blade or sword currency from the Nkutshu, Topoke & Songo Meno peoples
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Pair of African Iron Sword Currencies on Custom Stands
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a pair of African iron currency blade or sword currency from the Nkutshu, Topoke & Songo
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19th Century Congolese Antique African Swords

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Metal, Iron

Three African Topoke Sword Currency On Custom Stands
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Three African iron currency blades or swords currency from the Topoke peoples from the Democratic
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19th Century African Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

African Currency Sword on a Contemporary Stand, 19th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
African currency sword that was used in the Congo for important transactions such as dowry or land
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Akan Ceremonial Brass Bronze Lidded Container with Figures Ghana Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Africa, 20th century. Images include human figures, sandals, swords, and animals. These images relate to
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Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Antique African Swords

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Brass

African Tribal Yoruba, Nigeria Rider Figure Offering Bowl Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
sword in hand, the top is now missing. Measures: 10 1/2 inches high. Color is more accurate in the still
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Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Antique African Swords

Materials

Wool

An Unusually Large 19th Century Topoke Tribe Currency Sword
Located in Hudson, NY
This currency sword, like most African trade currency items, was used as a way to transfer wealth
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Set of 3 Antique Fish Prints, Sword Fish, John Dory, Haddock
Located in Langweer, NL
126, and African pompano, Alectis ciliaris 127. These prints originate from 'Unterhaltungen aus
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Mid-19th Century Antique African Swords

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Paper

La Danse pyrrhique (Pyrrhic Dance)
By Jean-Léon Gérôme
Located in New Orleans, LA
costumed dancers armed with swords who completed a series of movements set to music pantomiming combat
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19th Century Academic Antique African Swords

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Oil, Canvas

Large Meissen King Vulture standing on a tree trunk, around 1880
Located in Berlin, DE
swords. 19th century. Height: 71cm. The King Vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa) is almost 75 cm tall and is
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1880s German Antique African Swords

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Porcelain

Late 19th Century Bronze Sculpture of a Female Warrior by E. Drouot
By Edouard Drouot
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th century bronze sculpture of a female warrior with sword Signed E Drouot Edouard
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique African Swords

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Bronze

Antique rare amusing Russian silver model of a bear, St Petersburg, circa 1890
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
include two brown bears. The Republic of Marii El's coat of arms is a red bear with a sword and shield
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1890s Russian Antique African Swords

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Onyx, Silver

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Mid-20th Century Ceremonial Comb, Luba People, Zaire, D. R. Congo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Ceremonial comb, Luba People, Zaire, D. R. Congo Made of palm leaf midribs, this large, graphic comb has a pinched waist and is held together with finely wrapped wire. Presented o...
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Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Wire

Japanese black lacquered sword stand 刀掛け (katana’kake) with raden inlay
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charming black lacquered wooden sword stand (katana’kake), designed for 3 swords, encrusted with beautiful shiny blue/purple mother-of-pearl (raden). Presenting a stylized depiction...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique African Swords

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Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer

Jean-Gabriel Domergue's French Academician Sword
By Odette Domergue
Located in New Orleans, LA
This important and unique sword was presented to the famed French painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue to commemorate the painter's election to the illustrious Académie des Beaux-Arts in 19...
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20th Century Neoclassical Antique African Swords

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Steel

19th Century Steel and Sterling Silver Malaysian Dagger
Located in Miami, FL
19th century sterling silver Malaysian Dagger. Original carved mahogany wood handle. Sterting silver carved crown. Damascene steel. The kris is an asymmetrical dagger with distincti...
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15th Century and Earlier Malaysian Malayer Antique African Swords

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Mahogany

Giant Crocodile Fossil Wall Plate, Germany. 180 Million Years Old.
Located in London, GB
This outstanding fossilised skeleton is that of the ancestral crocodile species Steneosaurus bollensis that lived during the early Jurassic period. The skeleton, complete with armour...
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15th Century and Earlier German Antique African Swords

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Other

Ancient Antique Luristan Bronze Sword / Knife / Dagger / Early Iron Age Weapon
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Ancient Luristan bronze sword with green patina. Luristan bronze comes from the province of Lorestan, a region of nowadays Western Iran in the Zagros Mountains. With its rich and lo...
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15th Century and Earlier Persian Antique African Swords

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Bronze

Japanese Cast Iron Tea Pot (Tetsubin) of Square Form with Anchor & Sword, Signed
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
19th Century Japanese cast iron teapot or tetsubin of cube form with anchor chain handle, one side cast with a navel anchor continuing around the back and to the top where the top ri...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Folk Art Antique African Swords

Materials

Iron

Ancient Antique Luristan Bronze Sword / Knife / Dagger / Early Iron Age Weapon
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Ancient Luristan bronze sword with nice patina. Luristan bronze comes from the province of Lorestan, a region of nowadays Western Iran in the Zagros Mountains. With its rich and lon...
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15th Century and Earlier Persian Antique African Swords

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Bronze

Small Japanese Articulate Crab Jizai Okimono Meiji Period Signed
By Myochin Hiroyoshi
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small copper crab with articulated legs made by Myochin Hiroyoshi in the late Meiji Period circa 1890-1900s. As an ornamental display item, this type of small sculpture with moving...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique African Swords

Materials

Copper

Kuba Currency Spear, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
While shield and spear were central to African combat, this example by the Kuba People of Central Africa was most likely made to serve as a piece of trade currency. Many pre-coloniza...
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Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Kuba Currency Spear, circa 1900
Kuba Currency Spear, circa 1900
H 76.5 in W 6.5 in D 0.25 in
Ancient Antique Luristan Bronze Sword / Knife / Dagger / Early Iron Age Weapon
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Ancient Luristan bronze sword with nice patina. Luristan bronze comes from the province of Lorestan, a region of nowadays Western Iran in the Zagros Mountains. With its rich and lon...
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15th Century and Earlier Persian Antique African Swords

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Bronze

Big Size Vintage Gilt Bronze Silver Sword from China Original Sword
Located in 景德镇市, CN
This antique Chinese bronze sword is very well preserved, it has excellent copper quality, fine structure, mellow patina, smooth, and sharp edge. The blade of this sword is longer; t...
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19th Century Antique African Swords

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Bronze

Early 20th Century African Antique Wood Comb with Human Head
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th Century African Antique Wood Comb with Human Head From the Chokwe Culture of Angola. A fine, old, much used comb with a glossy, glasslike patina. Of traditional form with...
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Early 20th Century Angolan Other Antique African Swords

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Wood

Exceptional Wrought Iron and Brocatelle Marble Table, France, 1940s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Finest quality large 1940s French Art Deco dining or center table. Heavy hand-wrought iron base, with original green patina, and gilt accents (acanthus leaf decor). Gilt ribbon detai...
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1940s French Art Deco Antique African Swords

Decorative Spanish Metal Sword
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Decorative Spanish metal sword. Feature an occult motif handle of skulls and serpents. Made in Spain.
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20th Century Spanish Antique African Swords

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Metal

Decorative Spanish Metal Sword
Decorative Spanish Metal Sword
H 51.25 in W 12.5 in D 2 in
Pair of Large 18th Century French Boiserie Overdoor Paintings
Located in Dallas, TX
Once installed architecturally in a chateau in Normandy, France, this large pair of overdoors was painted in the 1700s and executed in a technique known as verdaille. Verdaille utili...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique African Swords

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

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Store closing. Last chance clearance sale Published Treasure Vessel African Art
Located in Santa Fe, NM
bowl. Between them are traditional Akan symbols of royalty: a ceremonial sword, a centipede, a turtle
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Early 20th Century Ghanaian Tribal Antique African Swords

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Ceramic, Paint

Portrait of Captain Weber
By Herman Gustave Herkomer
Located in New Orleans, LA
. Captain Weber wears a Wilkinson 1853 light cavalry sword in its dress scabbard which has full-dress gold
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Early 1900s Antique African Swords

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Oil Pastel, Oil

African Sword on a Contemporary Stand, 19th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
African currency Sword used in the Congo for important transactions such as dowry or land purchases
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Topoke Sword Currency
Located in London, GB
. These African sword currencies date range from the 1700-1900's.
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Early 20th Century Congolese Antique African Swords

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Iron

Topoke Sword Currency
Topoke Sword Currency
H 78.35 in W 15.36 in D 9.26 in
African Currency Sword on Contemporary Stand, 19th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
African Currency Sword mounted on a contemporary iron Stand. These were used in the Congo for
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

African Currency Sword on a Contemporary Stand, 19th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
African currency Sword used in the Congo for important transactions such as dowry or land purchases
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Beautifully Patinated African Tribal Sword Currencies of Iron on Custom Stands
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a pair of African iron currency blade or sword currency from the Nkutshu, Topoke & Songo
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19th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Metal, Iron

Pair Bronze African Equestrian Warrior Sculptures
Located in Chicago, IL
Two bronze warriors astride rearing steeds, and armed with swords, believed to be depicting members
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Early 20th Century African Antique African Swords

Large Meissen Group 'Allegory Of Africa' for Elisabeth I of Russia, c. 1850
By Johann Joachim Kaendler, Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
Personification of the continent of Africa as a dark-skinned woman who sits on a lion lying on the
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1850s German Rococo Antique African Swords

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Porcelain

Animal Group, Two Fennec Foxes, by Otto Pilz, Meissen Germany, ca 1907
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Vienna, AT
smallest of all wild dogs and native to the sandy deserts of North Africa. On a white, flat rectangular
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Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique African Swords

Materials

Porcelain

Meissen Figurine Group Lady and Black Boy by Paul Scheurich made c.1920-21
Located in Vienna, AT
jacket) - communicates with a lovely black boy standing beside her / the boy is clad in typical African
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1920s German Art Deco Antique African Swords

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Porcelain

Three Coloured Ixia
By Miss Smith
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
number of cormous plants native to South Africa from the subfamily Ixioideae of the family Iridaceae
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1810s Victorian Antique African Swords

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Watercolor, Engraving, Aquatint

Antique Painting Bedouin War Party by Giuseppe Raggio 1883 19th Century
Located in London, GB
historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Levant. The
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1880s Italian Antique African Swords

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Canvas, Giltwood

Congolese Sword Sculpture, Africa, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
1920s African Congolese sword sculpture. Wooden handle. Base measures 12" x 2".  
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1920s Congolese Antique African Swords

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Iron

Congolese Sword Sculpture, Africa, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
1920s African Congolese sword sculpture on metal stand. Base measures 10" x 2".  
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1920s Congolese Antique African Swords

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Iron

Congolese Sword Sculpture, Africa, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
1920s African Congolese sword sculpture on metal stand. Wooden handle. Base measures 8" x 2".  
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1920s Congolese Antique African Swords

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Iron

Igbo Tribal Seated Ikenga Figure with Sword and Head Africa, Nigeria
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Igbo tribal seated Ikenga figure with sword and head Africa, Nigeria Classic Ikenga Shrine figure
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Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Antique African Swords

Materials

Wood

Early 20th Century African Ngulu Ceremonial Status Sword, D.R. Congo
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th century African Ngulu Ceremonial status sword, D.R. Congo Ngombe Culture, D.R. Congo
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Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Antique African Swords

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Iron

Pair Bronze African Dogon Equestrian Warrior Sculptures
Located in Chicago, IL
Two bronze warriors astride rearing steeds, and armed with swords, believed to be depicting members
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19th Century African Antique African Swords

18th or 19th Century Follower of Rubens. Judith and the Head of Holofernes. Oil
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
he was overcome with drink and then approached his bed, seized her sword and slayed him. She took
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19th Century Old Masters Antique African Swords

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Canvas, Oil

Komárno
By Franz Hogenberg
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
area. Due to the convergence of the two rivers from both sides, it was built like the tip of a sword
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Antique African Swords

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Copper

Two Women Chattering, headpiece for Le Sourire (The Smile)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Fairlawn, OH
a sword, not a razor. They concluded that the artists had agreed to give the self-mutilation version
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Early 1900s French School Antique African Swords

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Woodcut

Fine Pair of Old Paris Porcelain Vases
Located in St. Louis, MO
party in the foreground with guns and swords, an African party in the background silhouetted against the
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Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique African Swords

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Porcelain

Fine Pair of Old Paris Porcelain Vases
Fine Pair of Old Paris Porcelain Vases
H 14 in W 4.25 in D 4.25 in
A Rare 17th-Century Depiction of a Garden
Located in New York, NY
also depicted in a robe of white and orange edged in gold, holding a sword in the air. At his feet is a
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique African Swords

African Azande Kpinga Forged Metal Throwing Knife
Located in Antwerp, BE
the African Congo. The blade closest to the handle is in the shape of a man’s genitals and represented
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Early 20th Century Congolese Antique African Swords

Last chance clearance sale. Ethiopia Shield African Art Wall Sculpture
Located in Santa Fe, NM
, these African shields even have an Asian feeling, like the Japanese Mingei art movement and the
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Early 20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Antique African Swords

Materials

Animal Skin, Paint

Oromo Ethiopia Hide Shield for War or Hunting African Tribal Art Wall Sculpture
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Crossing over from tribal into a contemporary design sensibility, these African shields even have
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Early 20th Century Ethiopian Tribal Antique African Swords

Materials

Animal Skin, Paint

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Antique African Swords For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a range of antique African swords for sale on 1stDibs. Each of these unique antique African swords was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, iron and ceramic. Antique African swords have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique African swords bearing Art Nouveau or neoclassical hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. Meissen Porcelain and Edouard Drouot each produced beautiful antique African swords that are worth considering.

How Much are Antique African Swords?

Antique African swords can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $2,399, while the lowest priced sells for $536 and the highest can go for as much as $20,773.