Items | Mandarin Mansion

Khmer dagger

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

€5600,-
Balinese keris of Ferdinand Blok

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

€7000,-
Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard

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

€5200,-
A South Nias belatu salà

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

Sold
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.

Sold
Nimble Vietnamese saber

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

Reserved
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.

Sold
A giant piso raout

An oversized utility knife of the headhunters of Borneo.

Sold
Montagnard short saber

Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Sold
Fine inlaid sikin panjang

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

Sold
Sulawesi sword with VOC blade

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

Sold
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.

€650,-
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.

Sold
Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

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

€675,-
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.

Sold
Fine Dayak blowgun

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

Sold
Flame backed double swords

With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

Sold
Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

Sold
The O.T. Burne dha

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

Sold
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€325,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

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

€250,-
Palembang twist-core pedang

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

Sold
Chin nicotine flask

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

Sold
Dayak carved ceremonial paddle

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

Sold
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.

Sold
A Padri carbine

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

€1300,-
A Murut parapat

The sword of the Murut headhunters of northern Borneo.

Sold
A streaked lin gin

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

Sold
Indonesian cockfighting spurs in box

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

Sold
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,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1500,-
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.

Sold
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

Sold
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2200,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1000,-
A fine Philippine bolo

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

Sold
A Karo Batak kalasan sword

An almost textbook example of a silver-plated kalasan.

Sold
Toba Batak sword

With cast-bronze guarding figure hilt.

Sold
Igorot headhunter javelin

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

Sold
Sikin panjang with golden crown

In original condition and period finish. Some losses, no repairs.

Sold
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

Sold
Javanese gold overlaid spear blade

Once part of a trisula, made on Java in the 17th century.

Gallery
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

Sold