A SOUTH INDIAN KATAR with flat fluted blade with riveted chiselled reinforce at the forte, iron hilt including recurved triangular hand-guard terminating in a monster's head, and hollow baluster handles (pitted overall), 18th Century; another katar, with expanding blade, the iron hilt damascened with silver foliage; four other katars; two Nepalese kukris, one with silver-damascened elephants on each side; a North African knife, the horn handle carved with figures in medieval style; and a chakram, mostly 19th Century