Sikin panjang with golden crown
In original condition and period finish. Some losses, no repairs.
€650,-
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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A northern katar in southern style
Exhibiting southern style beaded edges with northern style construction and gold.
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South Indian chiseled iron katar
A nice honest example of an early south Indian katar with great sculptural qualities.
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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…
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Fine piha kaetta with velvet scabbard
A very fine example with beautifully chiseled silver pommel plate.
€2900,-
An early "piha-kaetta"
Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.
€1500,-
A sawasa hunting hanger
Sawasa is a copper-gold alloy that was patinated a "raven black" and then highlights were parcel-gilt.
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Stone-hilted pesh-kabz
A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.
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Pesh kabz with horn plated hilt
An excellently designed thrusting dagger with T-spine and sharp tip.
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Chinese báitóng whip
A Chinese traditional hidden striking weapon, this time executed in the "white copper" alloy.
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An Acehnese rencong
A peculiar form of dagger found on the northern part of the island of Sumatra.
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A parakeet shaped ankus head
Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.
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A hanshee khukurī
A rare and sought-after type. This one comes in its original silver mounted scabbard.
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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,-
Tibetan mail shirt, helmet and mirrors
Collected by American anthropologist Melvyn Goldstein in the 1980s.
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Qing fangshi soldier's saber
A rare surviving example of the simple military version of this style.
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An Indonesian blunderbuss
Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.
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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt
An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.
€2200,-
An unusual ḍhāl
A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.
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A fine budhune khukurī
A fat-bellied variety of the Nepalese khukurī with mirror polished blade and iron handle with fine silver overlay.
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Kusari katabira zukin
Japanese mail set, with small ring vest and coif sewn to a thick cotton undergarment.
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Gold mounted presentation khukurī
Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.
€3000,-
Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard
With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.
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A Palembang sword with British blade
With finely carved horn hilt, silver mounts and reshaped European blade.
€1000,-
A kirach with hunting scenes
Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.
€3200,-
Fine Ottoman yatağan dated 1809
Made by a maker called Noah in 1809 for a certain Mehemmed Ağa Fî. With beautiful golden overlays on blade.
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