How to present and base blades and knives

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

Verdigris Bronze Age sword - black steel base

For ancient weapons or art objects from Asia or African Art, it's not uncommon to want to display a dagger, saber, knife, machete, kris, or any type of blade from archaeological excavations.

These objects often come from military collections, sometimes from archaeological antiquity, or even as souvenirs from travels. These are all decorative objects to present and highlight. So many varieties of weapons for which there are several display options.

Here's how you can highlight weapons, blades, and sabers, for example, using La Bulle's display solutions.

How to display an ancient, ferrous or non-ferrous sword or weapon? We have the solution! Or rather, solutions for every budget and aesthetic choice!

1- A handcrafted range of adjustable clear acrylic stands with powerful magnets for a simple and professional display.

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

3- For swords and katanas displayed in their scabbards, see our ranges of discreet Plexiglas stands and supports , suitable for all blade lengths.

4- An infinite number of possibilities are available to you with our minute base service, our custom bases, our steel supports, our brass bases as well as our mixed stands, among others, which are offered to you to create a simple base in one day.

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

Your blades displayed on a magnetic stand

The range of articulated clear acrylic stands and supports (ref SUM), ideal for bladed weapons from 10 to 30 cm in length, inclinable for horizontal, vertical or oblique display. It is only suitable for iron objects, as the attachment is secured by powerful micro-magnets. This powerful magnetic attachment allows the stand to showcase the weapon safely.

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

If you are interested in this magnetic base for small knives, Opinels, Laguiole knives, Swiss Army knives, antique razors, and various paper knives, contact us via our online form.

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

Enhance your blade and knife displays

Transparent display stand for weapons (Ref V).

Very easy to use, this support adapts to all types of medium and large sabers, daggers, and swords. Used alone, the V-type stand allows for a diagonal display. With two independent feet, the weapon can be displayed vertically, horizontally, and with variable inclination. The largest model is ideal for installation on top of a bookshelf and above a cabinet, for example.

African dagger on clear acrylic stands, oblique presentation. Four support heights available for multiple results.

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Your knives, blades, and daggers on custom-made bases

Custom mounting is recommended for custom creations on demand, with a choice of all dimensions, inclinations and finishes, wall-mounted or freestanding bases. Custom mounting is particularly recommended for ceremonial weapons or archaeological pieces.

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

For other weapons, such as this collection of "Geisha fingers" or this Neolithic Bronze Age axe head, it is possible to consider minute custom creations, depending on the materials we have available in the shop.

In these examples, the choice was made to use transparent acrylic blocks, holding the object with a discreet tenon for "Geisha fingers," and with the insertion of a transparent plexiglass tube for the axe head.

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

Finally, for this other example of a paper knife with a mother-of-pearl handle, here are two custom display stands to vary your desires around the same object. The vertical straight model is made of matte black painted steel, the inclined base is dark patinated and varnished brass.