A collection of five African weapons. – Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers

A collection of African weapons comprising of two long knives—presumably from Cameroon—featuring finely carved wooden grips and blades approximately 23 and 25 cm in length (one with a central ridge); a dagger in a sheath (origin unknown) with a leather-wrapped grip and a double-edged blade approximately 17 cm long; an axe from the Congo with a blade approximately 13 cm long on a shaft approximately 32 cm long; and a Sudanese multiple-weapon set in a crocodile-skin sheath containing two matching daggers with bone grips and double-edged blades approximately 18 cm long, as well as a short sword with a grip of the same material and a double-edged blade approximately 54.5 cm long, decorated with an openwork crocodile motif.

Estimate:£561.24

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