Jīnchuān shortsword
Jinchuan aborigines sword, the Qianlong emperor's name for this type of sword.
Pōdāo with dragon tūnkǒu
With a large iron guard and hard wooden shaft.
Chinese crescent tipped maces
A highly unusual set of paired maces with crescent tips.
Chinese garlic mace
Called suàntóu gǔduǒ in Mandarin, with characteristic brass head.
Jūn Huǒ Jú-made shuāng shǒudāo
Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.
Jūn Huǒ Jú-made saber
Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.
Chinese medium size jian
A heavy piece with a substantial blade, with smooth bronze mounts.
Double shortswords with belt hook
A classic set of Chinese double swords, complete with suspension and hook.
Chinese paired shortswords
Cantonese double swords with archaic dragon design mounts.
Early Chinese shortsword
A classic duanjian, but of somewhat earlier manufacture than most.
Shuāngjiàn with carved scabbard
A paired jian of fushou type, with carved hardwood scabbard.
Rooster fight kozuka
Executed in gold and silver on a shakudō nanako base, with golden back.
Cast iron compass rose guard
A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.
Unusual Chinese saber
Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.
Nanban kogai & kozuka set (futakoromono)
The only set of its type known to me in both private and museum collections.
Large Atayal lalaw sword
A particularly nice example with 120 iron bands holding the blade.
Ainu sword hilt
Made of wood, with a silver ornamental fitting of remarkable workmanship.
Ainu sword in Japanese polish
Exceedingly rare Ainu sword. Comes in an old Japanese collection box.
Paiwan tjakit with provenance
It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.
Fine Tibetan gem studded dagger
A very rare type of dagger that originates from the borderlands of Eastern Tibet and Sichuan.
Mongolian target quiver
Combining surplus Qing mounts with Mongol leatherwork.
A fine Yunnan Dai dagger
With characteristic bulb pommel and silver plating on hilt and scabbard.
Golden inlaid Korean jangdo
Made of blackened copper-gold alloy, finely inlaid with poems in pure gold.
Wavy Chinese spearhead
Of a rarer form, often used for ceremonial pole-arms.
Liuyedao with very good blade
Description
This Chinese liǔyèdāo is an excellent example of Chinese bladesmithing at its best.
Signed húdiédāo set
Of military style with long, narrow blades and ribbed hardwood grips.
Lóngquán Daoist shuāngjiàn
A very good set of Daoist straightswords in a single scabbard. There is a lot to see here, but I will start with the blades.
An Edo period kankyûtô
A double-edged samurai tool with morbid origins.
Signed nakago kozuka
A by-knife for a Japanese sword, with a hilt shaped like a sword tang.
Chinese báitóng whip
A Chinese traditional hidden striking weapon, this time executed in the "white copper" alloy.
A Chinese headman's sword
Of rare form with short but very heavy double-edged blade.
Japanese steel plate
Worked in repousse, possibly once part of an ornamental piece of armor.
A rare chilseong-geom
A rare Korean saber with ray-skin grip and scabbard and silver overlaid iron mounts.
Qing fangshi soldier's saber
A rare surviving example of the simple military version of this style.
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt
An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.
Kusari katabira zukin
Japanese mail set, with small ring vest and coif sewn to a thick cotton undergarment.
A very rare Japanese knife
With a blade with a concave edge, in stained deerhorn mounts with fine silver wire inlays.
Pierced iron saddle
Executed in the Tibetan style, exhibiting dragons in foliage chasing flaming jewels.
Antique Chinese spearhead 3
Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.
Antique Chinese spearhead 2
Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.
Antique Chinese spearhead
Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.
Unusual Taiwanese sword
With a straight blade of asymmetrical grind and a strongly Chinese inspired scabbard.
Bow by Yang Wentong
One of the last bows by Yang Wentong, father of Yang Fuxi.
Rare Korean war arrow
With a large double-edged tip and golden cresting.
Very good hudiedao set
With fine carved hilts, substantial bronze D-guards, and subtle signs of heat treatment on the blades.
An unusual minority dao
The wide blade with clipped tip mounted on a riveted wooden grip.
Chinese target arrow
With snake skin nock. Probably made by Ju Yuan Hao in the 1950s.
Bow by Ju Yuan Hao of Beijing
Made by the last operational bowyer of China, probably for the Mongolian market.
Iron mounted Qing bowcase & quiver
With iron mounts with golden overlay of dragons.