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Converted Chinese guard

A purely Chinese guard and not a very ornate one.

€175,-
"South China Sea Guard"

Most likely used by the multi-cultural crews of pirate fleets that roamed the South China seas.

€250,-
Bhutanese dagger

With narrow blade and all brass mounts.

€300,-
A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€300,-
Classic Choshu ship tsuba

The work nice and crisp, the execution has a naturalistic charm to it.

€350,-
Iron ship sword guard

A chiseled iron sword guard depicting a Dutch ship with a figure on its stern.

€450,-
A large Manchu knife

Of a type also issued to the Qing Vanguard.

€475,-
Sadeli walking cane

Covered almost entirely in very fine "sadeli" marquetry that is associated primarily with Gujarat.

€475,-
Sumatran keris panjang

A type of long keris often described as "execution keris".

€500,-
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.

€550,-
Malachite Manchu archer's ring

Such rings were worn by Qing dynasty "bannermen" as a sign of their status as a conquest elite.

€600,-
Vietnamese crook handled cane

With a finely crafted silver handle with dragons and squirrels, mounted on a malacca cane.

Reserved
A "dui chirra" khukuri

Named so after the two ridges that are formed on the bi-fullered blade.

€625,-
Fuchi kashira by Hisayuki

A beautiful signed Japanese ferrule and pommel plate.

€750,-
South Indian katar with Bikaner marks

An interesting South Indian style katar with an imported European blade.

€750,-
Burmese double knives

A rare set of twin knives in a single scabbard.

€750,-
Large silver mounted khukuri

With pierced mounts and velvet-covered scabbard.

€775,-
Saber of Bhima Nayak

A south Indian saber carrying the name "Sri Bhima Nayak".

€800,-
Sikkim "ban" sword

With finer forge folded blade than most of its type.

€800,-
Chinese hùshǒu with lantsa script

A Chinese sword guard from the 18th century with a Buddhist mantra in lantsa script.

€800,-
Asian export sword guard

An interesting pierced iron Asian export sword guard that is part of a small group of guards that

€900,-
Large Vietnamese trường đao

Of very good quality for this type of weapon.

€950,-
Triple golden crown sikin

A sikin panjang with a triple golden crown.

€1100,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-
Box of Javanese arrows

Used in a target archery sport that was originally practiced in the Keraton.

€1200,-
Chinese trousse in Mongolian style

With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.

€1200,-
Kiyou-Toujin Tsuba

A Japanese style sword guard made in 17th century Nagasaki Chinatown.

€1200,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.

€1250,-
Golden damascened boy's katar

A rare example with pattern welded blade, retaining its original scabbard.

€1500,-
Early Indian fighting sword

With a recurved blade and elaborate bronze hilt decorated with chakras.

€1500,-
A Chinese hook sword

A rather well-made example of its type.

€1500,-
Heavy Rajput katar

A heavy Indian katar with substantial armor piercing blade.

Reserved
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€1500,-
Qing openwork saber guard

A fine sword guard dating from the height of the Qing dynasty. It were fine Chinese dāo hùshǒu like this example that…

€1500,-
Ivory hilted dha

An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.

€1650,-
Fine Chinese Shan dha

Entirely clad in silver and with a differentially heat treated blade.

€1750,-
Southern Chinese yǎnyuèdāo

A large and impressive blade, its pole cut-down.

€1750,-
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung

With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.

€1800,-
An early form niúwěidāo

With good, layered blade, mounted in forged iron mounts.

€1800,-
A very good Burmese walking stick

Made of a beautiful piece of black zitan hardwood, carved in a spiral, topped with a silver knob.

€1850,-
A curved Deccan katar

With elaborately pierced and chiseled hilt.

€1900,-
Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.

€2000,-
A Vietnamese Christian cross

Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.

€2000,-
Chinese Shan presentation dha

Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.

€2000,-
Chinese lòukōng sword guard

This example has a beaded outer rim and a smooth inside rim, with in-between alternating stylized lotus petals. Such…

€2000,-
A Vietnamese matchlock musket

Called sung hoả mai in Vietnamese, they are based on the Indo-Portuguese system. This example has a baitong lock.

€2200,-
A Deccan chilanum

With wootz blade, and silver overlaid hilt that was finished with fire-gilding.

€2300,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2400,-
A large pihiya kättha

A massive example weighing just over 800 grams. With scabbard.

€2500,-
All wootz kard dagger

With a hidden compartment for a small utility knife.

€2500,-
Large wootz talwar

The hilt inlaid with silver, once blued for added contrast.

€2600,-
Vietnamese straightsword

It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.

€2600,-