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  • Qianlong marked jian

    Chinese sword with Qianlong reign mark

    Introduction This sword is part of a group of very similar swords.

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  •  A fine Chinese yanchidao

    A fine Chinese yànchìdāo

    It comes with its complete set of fittings in a thick gauge of báitóng.

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  • 18th-century peidao in iron fangshi mounts

    Peidao in iron fangshi mounts

    Introduction The terms peidao or yaodao are synonyms that were in use

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  • Ming yanchidao saber blade

    Ming dynasty saber blade

    Introduction The Chinese saber comes in a great variety of curvatures, profiles, and wi

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  • Sirdan logo

    A Sirdan, or Manchu war arrow

    This large and imposing type of war arrow is often compared to a small spear.

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  • Liuyedao logo

    Excellent Qing officer saber

    Introduction The yaodao, literally "waist saber" was the standard side-arm for

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  • Antique Chinese repeating crossbow logo

    Chinese repeating crossbow

    Perhaps one of the most famous and long-lived of Chinese weapons.

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  • Chinese sword breaker

    Chinese sword breaker

    With tapering blade, hollow ground on each side to make the edges slightly sharper.

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  • Nanban kozuka

    A nanban kozuka / kogatana

    Nanban kozuka are extremely rare, and this is a particularly fine example.

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  • Chinese encyclopedia

    Illustrated Encyclopedia of Things Chinese, 1719

    Description A Japanese volume from the 唐土訓蒙圖彚 or "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Things Ch

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  • Chinese tiger fork

    Chinese tiger fork

    One of the classic weapons in Chinese martial arts.

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  • A Japanese kusarigama

    A Japanese kusarigama

    The Japanese kusarigama is a variation of the gama, a scythe-like weapon that

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  • Ming - Qing transition period saber

    Early Qing saber

    A rare Chinese officer's saber of the 17th century.

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  • Qing dynasty hunter's powder flask

    Qing dynasty hunter's powder flask

    Introduction The elite of the Qing dynasty was Manchu, who before taking over China fro

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  • Chinese trousse

    Chinese trousse with inlaid iron mounts

    Background Sets with a knife and chopsticks -and sometimes some other utensils- were co

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  • Taiwanese pingpu knife

    Taiwanese Aboriginal Pingpu knife

    Introduction The Island of Taiwan was briefly under Dutch colonial rule in the 17th cen

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  • Antique Chinese bronze mace logo

    Antique Chinese bronze mace

    Introduction Chinese civilian martial artists used a wide variety of weapons.

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  • Asian export sword guard logo

    Asian Export sword guard

    Private collection. Not for sale.

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  • Antique Korean ceremonial saber logo

    Korean ceremonial saber

    Of a type referred to as byeolungeom, "sword used by king’s guard officials".

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  • Ancient bronze Ba-Shu dagger logo

    Ancient Ba-Shu dagger

    From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.

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  • Chinese loukong

    Chinese openwork (loukong) saber guard

    The archetypical Chinese sword guard of the 17th century.

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  • Japanese tsuba

    A Japanese nanban style tsuba

    Description An interesting little sword guard, of fairly simple form w

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  • Asian Export Tsuba

    Eight-lobed openwork tsuba

    Description A fairly unusual piece, of eight-lobed design.

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  • Ezo style tsuba

    Ezo style tsuba

    Introduction What are today known as "Ezo fittings" are a style of Japanese sword mount

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  • Korean love lotus guard

    "Love of Lotus" Korean guard

    Description Korean ceremonial sabers of the Joseon dynasty are pretty

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  • Late qing duanjian

    Republican duanjian with good blade

    Description An unusual piece: Jian with these mountings are usually of the long type, o

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  • Southern saber logo

    Late Qing southern saber

    With differential heat-treatment, creating a cloudy crystalline effect along the edge.

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  • Republican period jian logo

    Republican jian with etched blade

    Description A large and rather interesting Chinese jian dating from the Chines

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  • Antique Chinese jian logo

    Antique Chinese jian

    A fine Chinese straightsword blade, of typical Qing form with a rather wide profile.

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  • Ono school ship tsuba

    Ono school ship tsuba

    Description A classic Japanese ship tsuba with a motif called “kazeh

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  • Ship tsuba

    Classic Choshu ship tsuba

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

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  • Hudiedao

    Hudiedao set

    Introduction The hudiedao (蝴蝶刀), are a type of double swords p

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  • Rare mongolian knife

    Rare iconographic Mongolian style knife

    Introduction Many Mongols, the Khalkas in particular, had close ties with the Manchu ru

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  • Chinese saber mounts

    Antique Chinese saber fittings

    Description An antique set of scabbard fittings for a Chinese saber, probably second ha

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  • Chinese double jian set

    Chinese double shortswords

    A good set of the first half of the 19th century, with large and rather heavy forge folded blades.

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  • Handled dagger

    Chinese jade handled dagger

    It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.

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  • Rukai Taiwan aboriginal knife

    Taiwanese aboriginal Rukai knife

    A fine example with mother-or-pearl decorated hilt and scabbard.

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  • Yi or lolo sword

    A Yi / Lolo sword

    Introduction The Yi or Nuosuo people are known as Lolo in early Western ethnographic wr

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  • Chinese hook logo

    A Chinese hook sword

    A rather well-made example of its type.

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  • Village militia dadao

    Village militia dadao

    Description A large Chinese double handed falchion of a form that is both related to th

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  • Wide bladed hudiedao

    Antique wide bladed hudiedao

    Introduction The hudiedao (蝴蝶刀), are a type of double swords peculiar to t

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  • Korean knife or eunjangdo logo

    Korean knife or eunjangdo

    Description A small Korean knife called eunjangdo, literally "

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  • Large dadao logo

    An exceptionally large dadao

    With a wide clipped tip with notched upper edge.

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  • A niuweidao hilt logo

    Niuweidao with Guangxu mark

    Dated 1895. Large and heavy, a quality piece.

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  • Hook weapons logo

    Chinese crescent moon weapons

    Unusual set of paired Chinese maces of good workmanship.

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  • A Manchu saber logo

    A 17th century Manchu saber

    A massive 17th century saber blade with markings in Manchu and Chinese.

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  • A Manchu style bow from the Changxing workshop in Chengdu logo

    A Chinese bow by Changxing

    Rare extant work of a famous workshop in Chengdu.

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  • A rare Jinchuan sword logo

    A rare Jinchuan sword

    A royal sword, probably from the Wasi kingdom in present-day Sichuan province.

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  • Manchu bow with red bellies logo

    A rare Qing bow

    With translucent horn bellies glued on red pigment.

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  • Republican period jian logo

    Republican period fighting jian

    A very nice and complete example, circa 1920's-30's.

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  • Bronze jian mace logo

    Chinese bronze mace (tóngjiǎn)

    With large dragon head collar piece.

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  • Chinese saber with curved hilt

    Early Chinese duǎndāo

    With rare downward curving grip as seen on artwork of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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