Gilt duanjian with foreign blade
Unusual Chinese duanjian with fine gilt mounts and a blade of non-Chinese origin.
€3800,-Kunikiyo wakizashi, Yamano test cut
A wakizashi by master Kunikiyo, tested by the most famous sword tester of 17th century Japan.
€18000,-A milam of the Garo
This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.
€1800,-A Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
€3200,-Nimble Vietnamese saber
With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.
ReservedKutch shamshir for Benson
Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.
€5200,-Khanda with etched blade
A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.
€3500,-Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao
A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.
€575,-The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu
A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.
€1900,-Very good sikin panjang
Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.
€2200,-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,-Tongzhou incident 29th army dàdāo
With markings attributing it to the Tongzhou incident and a Japanese surrender tag.
€9500,-Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt
Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.
€6500,-Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776
A very fine specimen with VOC blade and ruby-set scabbard.
Price on requestChinese 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,-