How to present and base blades and knives

How to present and base a knife, sword or blade?

Your knives, blades and daggers on bases
custom-made or standard.

Bronze Age Verdigris Glaive - Black Steel Base

For antique weapons or Asian or African art objects, it is not uncommon to want to exhibit a dagger, a saber, a knife, a machete, a kris (or kriss) or any type of blade from archaeological excavations.

These objects often come from military collections, sometimes from archaeological antiquities, or sometimes even souvenirs brought back from a trip. They are all decorative objects to be presented and showcased. There are so many varieties of weapons for which there are several presentation options.

Here's how you can showcase weapons, blades, sabers, for example, using La Bulle presentation solutions.

How to display a sword or antique weapon, whether ferrous or not? We have the solution! Or rather, solutions to suit your budget and all aesthetic choices!

1- A handcrafted range of adjustable clear acrylic displays with powerful magnets for simple and professional presentation.

2- An adjustable range of discreet magnetic supports for small weapons.

3- For swords and katanas presented in their scabbards, see our range of discreet plexiglass displays and supports , suitable for all blade lengths.

4- An infinite number of possibilities are available to you with our quick plinth service, our custom-made plinths, our steel supports, our brass plinths as well as our mixed displays among others, which are offered to you to create a simple plinth in the same day.

La Bulle's tips for quick presentations suitable for small and light weapons:

Your blades displayed on a magnetic display stand

The range of transparent acrylic display stands and supports (ref SUM) , ideal for bladed weapons from 10 to 30 cm in length, tiltable for horizontal, vertical or oblique presentation. It is only suitable for iron objects, the attachment being ensured by powerful micro-magnets. This powerful magnetic attachment allows the display to enhance the weapon in complete safety.

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Magnetic, non-articulated plexiglass support for blades. (Ref. AIM).

If you are interested in this magnetic base for small knives, Opinels, Laguioles, Swiss Army knives, antique razors and various letter openers, please contact us using our online form.

Product available exclusively at our Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen store.

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Transparent display for weapons (Ref V ).

Very easy to use, this stand can be adapted to all types of sabers, daggers and swords of medium and large size. Used alone, the V-type display allows for diagonal presentation. With two independent feet, the weapon can be presented vertically, horizontally and with a variable inclination. The larger model is ideal for installation on top of a bookcase or above a wardrobe, for example.

African dagger on transparent acrylic displays, angled. Four stand heights available for multiple results.

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Your knives, blades and daggers on custom bases

Custom-made bases are recommended for custom creations made to order, with a choice of all sizes, angles, and finishes, whether wall-mounted or free-standing. Custom-made bases are particularly recommended for ceremonial weapons or archaeological pieces.

Whether the base is all steel or you prefer a mixed base, that is to say an assembly of several materials (wood and steel weighted with a metal plate for example), the result will best enhance the weapon to be presented.

For other weapons, such as this collection of "Geisha fingers" or this Neolithic axe head from the Bronze Age, it is possible to consider tailor-made creations on the spot , depending on the materials we have available in the store.

In these examples, the choice fell on the use of transparent blocks of clear acrylic, holding the object with a discreet tenon for the "Geishas' fingers", and with the insertion of a transparent plexiglass tube for the axe head.

To help you choose the best option, we offer several options for the same type of object. First, for comparison, two ceremonial billhooks (small billhooks from Cambodia), one mounted on a custom-made patinated brass base, the other on a black-painted steel base.

Finally, on this other example of a letter opener with a mother-of-pearl handle, here are two custom-made displays to vary your desires around the same object. The straight vertical model is in steel painted in matte black, the inclined base in brass with a dark patina and varnished.