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A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
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,-
Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

€5200,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€325,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€750,-
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,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2000,-
Acehnese peudeueng

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

€1000,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.

€1250,-
Chinese Shan presentation dha

Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.

€2000,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-