Items
Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.
Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.
Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.
Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.
A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.
With a black and gold metal sleeve, often called "sawasa".
With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.