Items | Mandarin Mansion

Rooster fight kozuka

Executed in gold and silver on a shakudō nanako base, with golden back.

€425,-
Cast iron compass rose guard

A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.

€400,-
Javanese cockfighting spurs in box

Weapons not for man, but for an unfortunate rooster. Retired, in a hardwood box.

€300,-
Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

€275,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€800,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1100,-
Nanban kogai & kozuka set (futakoromono)

The only set of its type known to me in both private and museum collections.

Price on request
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1500,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Paiwan tjakit with provenance

A fine example with illustrious provenance. It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer…

€7800,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

€2200,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2000,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1500,-
Igorot headhunter javelin

With exceptionally wide blade, forged with a hardened leading edge.

€1300,-
Sikin panjang with golden crown

In original condition and period finish. Some losses, no repairs.

€650,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
An Edo period kankyûtô

A double-edged samurai tool with morbid origins.

€450,-
Signed nakago kozuka

A by-knife for a Japanese sword, with a hilt shaped like a sword tang.

€450,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
A fine north Indian dagger

Of jambiya form, with pattern welded blade and fine silver scabbard mounts.

€3800,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.

€2500,-
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

€2200,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
A katar with true inlay decoration

Late 17th century. With wootz blade and enamel chape.

€3200,-
Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

€750,-
Ottoman cartridge pouches

with space for 20 cartridges, complete with powder flask.

€500,-
A kirach with hunting scenes

Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.

€3200,-
Yatağan dated 1790-1791

An old warhorse with several repairs.

€1200,-
Antique Chinese spearhead 2

Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.

€375,-
Antique Chinese spearhead

Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.

€400,-
Tongzhou incident 29th army dàdāo

With markings attributing it to the Tongzhou incident and a Japanese surrender tag.

€9500,-
Rare Korean war arrow

With a large double-edged tip and golden cresting.

€500,-
A gilt Indian jambiya

With gilt-copper hilt and scabbard done in beautiful Kutch style repousse work.

€2200,-
A fine mandau

With less common wooden hilt and elaborately inlaid blade in brass, copper and silver.

€1200,-
A Kenyah mandau

The famous sidearm of the headhunters of Borneo.

€600,-
Khukurī in wooden scabbard

The scabbard carved as to closely mimic a tooled leather scabbard.

€450,-
A trousse khukurī

Its scabbard with 12 pockets, with 10 of the items remaining.

€500,-
Large khukurī with inlaid hilt

Late 19th century with a good, well-made blade.

€400,-
An early sirupātē khukurī

With a heavy blade of elegant slender form. Complete with tools.

€500,-
19th century military khukurī

A workhorse with a stamped mark at the base of the blade.

€350,-
Half bone hilted khukurī

With wide blade and a two-tone hilt in cattle bone and wood, capped with brass.

€350,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
A humble service khukurī

A 19th-century piece with a simple blade but nicely carved hilt.

€250,-
An eccentric khukurī

With engraved spine and unusual all brass pommel.

€275,-
Brass mounted Thai dáap

Description A charming and somewhat unusual example of a Thai dáap (ดาบ).

€675,-