Items | Mandarin Mansion

Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

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An Edo period kankyûtô

A double-edged samurai tool with morbid origins.

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Pesh kabz with horn plated hilt

An excellently designed thrusting dagger with T-spine and sharp tip.

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Chinese báitóng whip

A Chinese traditional hidden striking weapon, this time executed in the "white copper" alloy.

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Good Vietnamese dagger

An unusually ornate version of what is normally a very simple weapon.

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Vietnamese knife

A simple early 20th-century fighting dagger with ribbed grip.

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A Chinese headman's sword

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

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An Acehnese rencong

A peculiar form of dagger found on the northern part of the island of Sumatra.

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A parakeet shaped ankus head

Made with a separate parakeet-shaped hook, attached to long tanged spearhead.

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A south Indian ankus head

South India, made of chiseled iron with bird-bodied yali creatures.

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Japanese steel plate

Worked in repousse, possibly once part of an ornamental piece of armor.

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A hanshee khukurī

A rare and sought-after type. This one comes in its original silver mounted scabbard.

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Tibetan mail shirt, helmet and mirrors

Collected by American anthropologist Melvyn Goldstein in the 1980s.

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Qing fangshi soldier's saber

A rare surviving example of the simple military version of this style.

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An Indonesian blunderbuss

Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.

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A rare kudi trantang

A rare variation of one of the rarest forms of Indonesian arms.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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An unusual ḍhāl

A translucent hide shield with gilt brass ornaments. Probably Nepalese of for a Nepalese client.

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A Punjabi arm guard

Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.

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A fine budhune khukurī

A fat-bellied variety of the Nepalese khukurī with mirror polished blade and iron handle with fine silver overlay.

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Kusari katabira zukin

Japanese mail set, with small ring vest and coif sewn to a thick cotton undergarment.

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Wootz talwar with pierced scabbard

With fine gold overlaid hilt, tight-grained wootz blade and elaborately pierced scabbard.

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Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

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A Palembang sword with British blade

With finely carved horn hilt, silver mounts and reshaped European blade.

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A kirach with hunting scenes

Its blade pattern-welded and chiseled with designs of hunters and animals.

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Fine Ottoman yatağan dated 1809

Made by a maker called Noah in 1809 for a certain Mehemmed Ağa Fî. With beautiful golden overlays on blade.

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Yatağan dated 1790-1791

An old warhorse with several repairs.

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Indian pata with Solingen blade

With a blade of 17th-century European manufacture, with trader's name on it.

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French sword for the King of Siam

With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.

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Antique Chinese spearhead 3

Of classic shape, with a leaf-shaped blade on a socket, connected by a cast bronze base.

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Unusual Taiwanese sword

With a straight blade of asymmetrical grind and a strongly Chinese inspired scabbard.

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Bow by Yang Wentong

One of the last bows by Yang Wentong, father of Yang Fuxi.

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Rare Ottoman war arrow

With a small, barbed armor-piercing point and early style painted shaft.

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Rare Korean war arrow

With a large double-edged tip and golden cresting.

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Various Indian arrows

An assortment of Indian arrows with various heads.

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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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A fine Kayan mandau

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

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A Kenyah mandau

The famous sidearm of the headhunters of Borneo.

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Talwar hilted shamshir

With a very fine Persian blade of "brilliant black" wootz.

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Lahore talwar hilted shamshir

Persian wootz shamshir in a talwar hilt from Lahore.

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A rare Burmese spear

A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.

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A fine south Nias telögu

With rare pale buffalo horn hilt with gold alloy inlays.

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Very fine Sinhalese kasthāné

With parcel gilding and ruby eyes, in a fine silver repousse scabbard.

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Sinhalese ul-pihiya

A rare example retaining its original silver covered scabbard.

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Silver plated Tanjore spearhead

A large and heavy example with chiseled decor and silver overlaid base.

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Large khukurī with inlaid hilt

Late 19th century with a good, well-made blade.

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An early sirupātē khukurī

With a heavy blade of elegant slender form. Complete with tools.

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19th century military khukurī

A workhorse with a stamped mark at the base of the blade.

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A good old khukurī

Of late 19th century make, with a very good blade.

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The khukri of Peter L. Achard

Also known as kothimora khukuri, in a scabbard with repousse silver mounts.

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An eccentric khukurī

With engraved spine and unusual all brass pommel.

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An unusual minority dao

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

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