Wide Sino-Vietnamese knife
Large bowie-type blade with prominent raised backedge.
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao
With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.
A Tonkinese saber
Northern Vietnam, 19th century
17th century Vietnamese lance
With a black and gold metal sleeve, often called "sawasa".
One of my favorite items...
... and it is not even a weapon!
Chinese demon head saber
Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt
Group of arms from Tonkin
Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.
Tonkinese saber
Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.
Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger
A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.
Broad Vietnamese knife
Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.
Vietnamese single edged spearhead
Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.
Sawasa
A term used for colonial Asian metalwork in black and gold.