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  • Qing edict box

    Qing dynasty imperial edict box

    Used to move imperial orders from the emperor’s quarters to the recipient.

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  • Chinese yataghan saber

    Chinese saber with yatağan style blade

    An extremely rare and possibly unique type of Chinese officer's saber, or peidao, of the 18th century.

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  • Chinese crescent moon maces logo

    Chinese crescent tipped maces

    A highly unusual set of paired maces with crescent tips.

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  • 19th century Qing military saber

    19th century Qing military saber

    With massive 10mm thick blade with strong distal taper.

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  • Woyaodao

    A Chinese woyaodao

    Introduction The ridged and facetted blade shape that is so well known

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  • Korean helmet

    Imjin wars period helmet

    Description An early type of Korean soldier's helmet.

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  • Yi or lolo sword

    A Yi / Lolo sword

    Introduction The Yi or Nuosuo people are known as Lolo in early Western ethnographic wr

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  • Handled dagger

    Chinese jade handled dagger

    It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.

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  • Large dadao logo

    An exceptionally large dadao

    With a wide clipped tip with notched upper edge.

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  • Chinese saber mounts

    Antique Chinese saber fittings

    Description An antique set of scabbard fittings for a Chinese saber, probably second ha

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  • A Manchu style bow from the Changxing workshop in Chengdu logo

    A Chinese bow by Changxing

    Rare extant work of a famous workshop in Chengdu.

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  • Chinese scholar's sword

    A Chinese scholar's sword

    Introduction The Chinese straightsword or jiàn (劍) was traditi

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  • Signed Chinese rattan shield

    Signed Chinese rattan shield

    This one has the early, peaked form and is signed by its maker.

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  • Jumonji yari

    Jūmonji yari (hozon)

    A fine cross-shaped yari made by Enju Nobakatsu, with NBTHK Hozon papers.

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  • Tibetan style pierced iron pommel plate logo

    Tibetan style pierced saddle plate

    With designs of four dragons in scrollwork around a "wish-granting-jewel"

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  • Ancient bronze Ba-Shu dagger logo

    Ancient Ba-Shu dagger

    From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.

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  • Hui dadao

    Chinese Hui sword

    A peculiar Chinese dadao with markings attributing it to a Hui army or battallion.

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  • Tibetan or Mongolian quiver logo

    Tibetan or Mongolian quiver

    Of an early type with dramatic widened shape.

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  • Garlic bulb mace logo

    Chinese garlic mace

    Called suàntóu gǔduǒ in Mandarin, with characteristic brass head.

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  • 18th-century peidao in iron fangshi mounts

    Peidao in iron fangshi mounts

    Introduction The terms peidao or yaodao are synonyms that were in use

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  • Chaoyang saber logo

    Chinese saber of the Chaoyang army

    Late 18th century, complete with its original scabbard.

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  • Qianlong marked jian

    Chinese sword with Qianlong reign mark

    Introduction This sword is part of a group of very similar swords.

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  • Chinese saber logo

    Southern Chinese saber

    Introduction The yaodao, literally "waist saber" was the standard side-arm for

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  • Republican period jian logo

    Republican jian with etched blade

    Description A large and rather interesting Chinese jian dating from the Chines

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  • Qing quiver

    Antique Qing quiver

    A quiver of the late Qing dynasty.

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  • 18th century Chinese saber logo

    18th century Chinese saber

    With fine blade, of liuyedao form with a gentle curvature.

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  •  Qing Bannerman's helmet logo

    Qing Bannerman's helmet

    Of a type worn among others by the Valiant Cavalry.

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  • Republican period jian logo

    Republican period fighting jian

    A very nice and complete example, circa 1920's-30's.

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  • Heavy Manchu war or strength bow

    Heavy Manchu war or strength bow

    With an estimated draw weight of 160-200 pounds.

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  • Hudiedao logo

    Very good hudiedao set

    With fine carved hilts, substantial bronze D-guards, and subtle signs of heat treatment on the blades.

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  • Antique Chinese saber with broad blade logo

    Broad 17th century Chinese saber

    Yet another type that I had not yet seen before.

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  • Rare mongolian knife

    Rare iconographic Mongolian style knife

    Introduction Many Mongols, the Khalkas in particular, had close ties with the Manchu ru

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  • A Chinese executioners sword logo

    A Chinese headman's sword

    Of rare form with short but very heavy double-edged blade.

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  • A southern dao logo

    Southern Chinese saber

    Of typical southern form with a very slender, pointy blade.

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  • Western Chinese dao logo

    An unusual minority dao

    The wide blade with clipped tip mounted on a riveted wooden grip.

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  • Chinese trousse set

    Trousse with "horse-tooth" blade

    Accomplished by bending the edge up and down alternately and polishing it smooth again.

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  • Antique Chinese repeating crossbow logo

    Chinese repeating crossbow

    Perhaps one of the most famous and long-lived of Chinese weapons.

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  • Burmese hilted wakizashi in Indian scabbard logo

    Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

    An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

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  • Qing liedao

    Large Chinese hunting knife

    With fine blade in recent polish. With resting scabbard.

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  • Aviz tsuba

    House of Aviz tsuba

    A Japanese sword guard with the cross of the House of Aviz.

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  • Yari logo

    An interesting Japanese yari

    Signed Yasutsugu, with sayagaki referring to the Tokugawa family.

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  • Ming militia jian

    Ming militia sword

    An honest, unpretentious fighting weapon of the Ming-Qing period.

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  • Village militia dadao

    Village militia dadao

    Description A large Chinese double handed falchion of a form that is both related to th

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  • Qing dynasty archer's belt

    Qing archer's belt

    Made of heavy silk with gilt copper alloy mounts.

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  • Mongolian target quiver logo

    Mongolian target quiver

    Combining surplus Qing mounts with Mongol leatherwork.

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  • Medium length Chinese straightsword jian logo

    Chinese medium size jian

    A heavy piece with a substantial blade, with smooth bronze mounts.

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  • Jun Huo Ju Shuangshoudao logo

    Jūn Huǒ Jú-made shuāng shǒudāo

    Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

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  • Chinese loukong export guard

    Chinese lòukōng sword guard

    The archetypical Chinese sword guard that gave rise to the Japanese genre of "nanban tsuba".

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  • Handachi wakizashi

    Handachi mounted wakizashi

    With Nanban-style guard and kozuka. Signed Fujiwara Hisayoshi.

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  • Chinese hudiedao set logo

    A good pair of butterfly swords

    Introduction The hudiedao (蝴蝶刀), are a type of double swords p

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  • Chinese double jian set

    Chinese double shortswords

    A good set of the first half of the 19th century, with large and rather heavy forge folded blades.

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  • Late Qing jian

    Late Qing jian

    A typical example, complete with lacquered scabbard.

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