Welcome to Faganarms

Since 1965, we have served collectors, providing fine and rare Antique Arms & Armor and a broad spectrum of related items. Founded in the post war years when good items were relatively abundant we grew with the Civil War Centennial and through the Revolutionary War Bi-centennial to become the largest volume dealers in our field.

Our stock of over 5000 items includes swords and all types of edge weapons, armor, pole arms and firearms as well as artifacts from virtually every culture including Viking, Indopersian, African, Oceanic, Japanese, and other Asian.

A NORTH ITALIAN CUP-HILT RAPIER C.1640 Price: $8,800.00 This example represents the rapier at its zenith. The solid iron cup with roped top edge rolled inward is decorated with intertwined bands enclosing panels decorated with foliage inhabited by beasts. Blade length: 42 1/2”	AN ITALIAN ARBALETE C.1780 Price: $2,600.00 The arbalete or pellet crossbow was used primarily as a hunting weapon. As such, its use was restricted to nobility and the aristocracy.
AN ITALIAN ARBALETE C.1580 Price: $4,100.00 This example represents one of the most elegant forms from the evolution of the cross bow. As they were used for hunting, sufficient numbers have survived in good condition for accurate dating and typology.	A SCOTTISH BASKET-HILT BROADSWORD, CIRCLE OF OR INFLUENCED BY THE STIRLING MAKERS Price: $14,000.00 This fine sword is from a group discussed in Culloden The Swords and Sorrows, where two additional examples, 1:41 and 1:42, are illustrated. Blade length: 33 1/8”
EUROPEAN PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL C.1850. Price: Sold Belgian made for export and type used throughout Europe and America where venturing into the country side or a back alley made you dependent on your own resources against robbers and worse.	EUROPEAN POACHER’S SHOTGUN CANE C.1870. Price: $650.00 The leather covered shaft comprising a 12 ga. shot gun barrel. The upper end threaded to the turned globular wood grip.
HAND FORGED WHALING HARPOON C. 1830-40 Price: $975.00 33 1/4 length. Conical socket with screw hole for attachment to the haft and hammer finished shaft. Deep rich brown stabilized surface rust. From an untouched chest of these which came to market directly from a century of storage in the industry about 15	RARE 13TH CENTURY RUSSIAN MACE Price: $1,650.00 This mace represents the earliest of flanged maces which were produced in response to the increased use of solid plate with mail armor. A blow with a ball head mace which made effective contact with mail was deflected by the solid plate surface.
A BUGANDA SHIELD Price: $1,300.00 Late 19th century. Intricately made form a single piece of wood. 40” overall, oval with large central boss and integral hand grip opposite.	A RARE FLEMISH CAVALRY SWORD C.1660 Price: $2,900.00 This sword accords in detail with an example studied in Spanish Military Weapons in Colonial America (page 79) which is dated c.1650-60 and stated to be the earliest known example of the type.
SPANISH BILBO BROADSWORD C.1750 Price: $1,850.00 Classic example as served in Colonial America, the Caribbean and the Spanish Main. As illustrated in all the standard texts including Neumann 296.S and Spanish Military Weapons in Colonial America pl.146-8 and the original regulation drawings, pl.145.	FRENCH CIVILIAN SMALLSWORD C.1790-FRENCH REVOLUTION PERIOD. Price: $1,195.00 30 1/2” hollow triangular blade, crisply etched with rococo foliage over stylized geometry panels. Iron hilt with fretted disk guard, knuckle bow with expanded diamond form medial and elongated pommel faceted in matching diamonds.
17TH CENTURY INDOPERSIAN RIVETED MAIL HORSEMAN’S JACKET Price: $1,550.00 Large size with half length arms and waist length torso. That length allowing for wear on horse back with the saddle providing protection below the waist.	AN ITALIAN RUNKA C.1525 Price: $6,600.00 In the first half of the 16th century, the Italian runka retained the simple elegance of its Gothic roots. Length overall: 99”
A EUROPEAN BROADSWORD C.1620-40 Price: $2,350.00 Iron hilt. The guard with a ring to the right filled with a solid shell and thumb ring to the left. Swelled knuckle bow matching the side ring.	A EUROPEAN CAVALRY SWORD C.1620-40 Price: $2,750.00 Iron hilt with swelled side ring, knuckle bow and diagonal connecting bar, each with chiseled “gathered and bound” motif. Thumb ring to the left side. Large modified inverted pear shaped pommel.
A EUROPEAN CAVALRY SWORD C.1620-40. Price: $2,250.00 This example represents the most popular form with an iron hilt with swelled knuckle bow, matching side bar and an S form bar connecting them.	AN ITALIAN BREASTPLATE C.1580... Price: $8,800.00 This breastplate is of peascod form with a strong central ridge developing to a projection above the waist.