Items | Mandarin Mansion

Very good sikin panjang

Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

€2200,-
Fine Peranakan belt buckle

This style of belt buckles was produced in Tangerang, just West of Batavia, now Jakarta.

€450,-
A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

€1600,-
Jīnchuān shortsword

Jinchuan aborigines sword, the Qianlong emperor's name for this type of sword.

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Pōdāo with dragon tūnkǒu

With a large iron guard and hard wooden shaft.

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Chinese crescent tipped maces

A highly unusual set of paired maces with crescent tips.

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Silver overlaid talwar hilt

Never mounted, still with the shop's wooden stopper.

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Chinese garlic mace

Called suàntóu gǔduǒ in Mandarin, with characteristic brass head.

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Jūn Huǒ Jú-made shuāng shǒudāo

Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

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Jūn Huǒ Jú-made saber

Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

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A Murut parapat

The sword of the Murut headhunters of northern Borneo.

€900,-
A streaked lin gin

These ornate versions with hairpin forged blades were worn by local royalty.

€1700,-
A remarkable Khond axe

The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

€2400,-
Double-edged Bhutanese dagger

With triple grooves and in heavy silver mountings.

€3200,-
A Persian crescent axe

With lacquered shaft. Previously sold at Sotheby's in 1985.

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Chinese medium size jian

A heavy piece with a substantial blade, with smooth bronze mounts.

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Double shortswords with belt hook

A classic set of Chinese double swords, complete with suspension and hook.

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Chinese paired shortswords

Cantonese double swords with archaic dragon design mounts.

€650,-
Early Chinese shortsword

A classic duanjian, but of somewhat earlier manufacture than most.

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Shuāngjiàn with carved scabbard

A paired jian of fushou type, with carved hardwood scabbard.

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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,-
Indonesian cockfighting spurs in box

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

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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.

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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,-
Large Atayal lalaw sword

A particularly nice example with 120 iron bands holding the blade.

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Ainu sword hilt

Made of wood, with a silver ornamental fitting of remarkable workmanship.

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Ainu sword in Japanese polish

Exceedingly rare Ainu sword. Comes in an old Japanese collection box.

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An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Ceremonial Moro kalis

Measuring almost a meter, with exceptional blade for a ceremonial keris.

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Paiwan tjakit with provenance

It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.

€7800,-
Fine Tibetan gem studded dagger

A very rare type of dagger that originates from the borderlands of Eastern Tibet and Sichuan.

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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.

€1200,-
South Indian spearhead

From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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A fine Philippine bolo

The blade inlaid with brass, complete with a horn scabbard with pierced decoration.

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A Karo Batak kalasan sword

An almost textbook example of a silver-plated kalasan.

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Mongolian target quiver

Combining surplus Qing mounts with Mongol leatherwork.

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Toba Batak sword

With cast-bronze guarding figure hilt.

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Igorot headhunter javelin

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

€1300,-
South Indian tungi axe

A relatively rare variety of an Indian war axe, called tungi.

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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,-
South Indian spear butt

Made of iron, weighted with two flattened spheres, all with chiseled decoration.

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A fine Yunnan Dai dagger

With characteristic bulb pommel and silver plating on hilt and scabbard.

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