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A large Vietnamese falchion

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

€1100,-
Vietnamese straightsword

It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.

€2600,-
Chinese Shan presentation dha

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

€2000,-
Very fine ceremonial gươm

An outstanding example with very fine silver and moth-of-pearl work.

€3400,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.

€400,-
A Vietnamese matchlock musket

Called sung hoả mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.

€1900,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.

€5000,-
A Vietnamese Christian cross

Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.

€1800,-
Burmese silver overlaid dha

On a sturdy, user-grade blade with temper line.

€575,-
A Kenyah mandau

The famous sidearm of the headhunters of Borneo.

€575,-
A fine Kajan mandau

With less common wooden hilt and elaborately inlaid blade in brass, copper and silver.

€900,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
Balinese keris

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

€350,-
Acehnese peudeueng

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

€1200,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€2000,-
Old Madura keris

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

€400,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1500,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1100,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
A streaked lin gin

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

€1700,-
A Padri carbine

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

€1600,-
Fine Peranakan belt buckle

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

€450,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Dayak carved ceremonial paddle

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

€3000,-
Chin nicotine flask

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

€360,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

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

€250,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€525,-
Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a purely ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.

€350,-