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European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Vietnamese wooden shield

Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.

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Vietnamese shortsword

A short version of the Vietnamese kiếm sword with a finely carved horn hilt.

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Very fine Mindan dha

Introduction Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandala

€3600,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

Of the silver overlaid type made in Mindan, with an unusual story on the blade.

€4000,-
Parang latok

A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.

€2800,-
Silver hilted keris coteng

A textbook example of this rare and early type of keris.

€3200,-
Unusual South Nias sword

Of rather clean design for the area, with separate silver mouth with teeth in hilt.

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Cambodian long saber

Sized like the Chinese changren dadao, yet the execution of the hilt is Cambodian.

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Chinese demon head saber

Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt

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Southeast Asian sword club

This enigmatic hardwood club is modeled after a sword.

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Batad Ifugao hinālung

Rare double-edged shortsword of the Ifugao of northern Luzon.

€800,-
South Nias gari matuwà

A nice belatu with the rarer gari matuwà style blade.

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Later South Nias belatu

Nice and complete example with talisman basket. Probably 20th century.

€1100,-
North Nias si euli

A peculiar type of knife worn in the north of Nias.

€1350,-
Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

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Khmer dagger

A rare thousand-year-old dagger from the Khmer empire.

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Balinese keris of Ferdinand Blok

The 9-luk blade of strong proportions is engraved with the face of a demon.

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Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard

It represents the best of Burmese silversmithing with repousse work in high relief.

€3800,-
A South Nias belatu salà

Rare sword from the headhunters of Nias. Complete with talismanic basket and belt hook.

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A Khasi dao

These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

€3200,-
Tonkinese saber

Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.

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Nimble Vietnamese saber

With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.

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Rare beladau lebar dagger

A rare type of dagger from South Kalimantan, loosely based on Islamic daggers seen worn by traders.

€475,-
Rare Modang Mandau

With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.

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A giant piso raout

An oversized utility knife of the headhunters of Borneo.

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Montagnard short saber

Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

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Fine inlaid sikin panjang

Complete example with the rarer feature of inlays at the base of the blade.

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Sulawesi sword with VOC blade

A very good sword from South Sulawesi (Celebes) with silver mounts and a dated VOC blade.

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Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

€1750,-
Preanger sword with VOC blade

Blade marked with VOC Amsterdam monogram, and the year 1769.

€2000,-
West-Javanese gobang

The sword of the Sundanese people of the Preanger highlands.

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Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
West-Javanese stiletto dagger

Early piece with an unusual European-style stiletto blade.

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Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.

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Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Dayak dart quiver with darts

Complete with a large number of darts, some with poisoned tips.

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Fine Dayak blowgun

Long piece, original length, with aso motif inlaid in blade.

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Flame backed double swords

With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

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Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

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Pair of Siamese royal pole arms

With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.

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The O.T. Burne dha

With silver overlaid blade and silver mounts worked in repousse. With some of Burne's personal items.

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Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

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Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

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Palembang twist-core pedang

A Palembang style sword with a fine twist-core blade and carved hardwood scabbard.

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Chin nicotine flask

A very rare flask used by Chin men of Burma for sipping nicotine water.

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Dayak carved ceremonial paddle

A fine ceremonial paddle of the Ngaju Dayak of southern Borneo.

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Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Fine Peranakan belt buckle

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

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A Padri carbine

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

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A Murut parapat

The sword of the Murut headhunters of northern Borneo.

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A streaked lin gin

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

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