Vietnamese knife
A simple early 20th-century fighting dagger with ribbed grip.
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt
An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.
French sword for the King of Siam
With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.
A rare Burmese spear
A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.
Brass mounted Thai dáap
A charming and somewhat unusual example of a Thai dáap (ดาบ).
Plain mounted Mindan dha
Plain when sheathed, unsheathing reveals a rather nice silver overlaid blade.
Early silver Burmese dha
With elaborate silver overlaid blade and inlaid iron hilt.
Burmese silver overlaid dha
On a sturdy, user-grade blade with temper line.
Tribal Kachin dha
A typical example with a nice forge folded blade with differential heat treatment.
Vietnamese crook handled cane
With a finely crafted silver handle with dragons and squirrels, mounted on a malacca cane.
A Vietnamese Christian cross
Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.
A Vietnamese matchlock musket
Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
Heavy Sino-Vietnamese dagger
With a very thick and heavy blade and nicely worked brass mounts.
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao
Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.
Fine Chinese Shan dha
Entirely clad in silver and with a differentially heat treated blade.
A Mindan / Yamethin dha
With fine overlaid blade this area was known for.
Large Shan dha
With silver-clad scabbard executed in their typical style.
Mindan dha with agate pommel
Its blade portraying the story of one of the previous lives of Guatama Buddha.
Burmese dha dated 1928
A nice example that can serve as a benchmark to help date others.
Sino-Vietnamese fighting knife
A Chinese style fighting knife probably made in Yunnan or Vietnam.
Vietnamese officer gươm
With staghorn grip finely carved with plum blossoms.
Very fine ceremonial gươm
An outstanding example with very fine silver and moth-of-pearl work.
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung
With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.
Vietnamese officer's gươm
Of a late 19th century type with a silver-backed hardwood grip.
Ceremonial gươm truòng
Of an all-wooden construction, simulating a sheathed long saber.
Burmese double knives
A rare set of twin knives in a single scabbard.
The Rundle dha of 1898
A signed and dated Burmese dha.
Ivory hilted dha
An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.
Burmese sword carbine
A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Matched Vietnamese kiếm pair
With carved stone handles and superb workmanship in silver and mother-of-pearl.
Chinese Shan presentation dha
Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.
A Shan Kachin style dha
A large Kachin style square-ended dha in Shan style mountings.
Vietnamese double swords
A rare combination of full-length double Vietnamese swords with live blades.
A heavy Burmese dha
With a very good, substantial blade with differential heat treatment.
Large Vietnamese trường đao
Of very good quality for this type of weapon.
Vietnamese straightsword
It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.
A large Vietnamese falchion
Description
A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better name for the type.
Asian export disc guard
The design, overlaid in silver, gold, and copper, over a crosshatched background shows dragon amongst clouds.
Asian Export sword guard
Private collection. Not for sale.
Vietnamese ceremonial saber
A magnificent example of a Vietnamese ceremonial saber, or guőm.
A spectacular Burmese dha
With overlays of vegetal motifs alternated with animals, actual and mythical.
Vietnamese rattan shield
Called khiên in Vietnamese.
A Vietnamese straightsword kiem
With a substantial, quality blade.
A Vietnamese kiem
A very good Vietnamese ceremonial kiem of the Nguyen dynasty.
A Burmese dha with openwork handle
Made of a single piece of ivory, with a kneeling figure in its base.
An ivory hilted kiem
The grip made of a single piece, worked in high relief.
Vietnamese musket with silver lock
Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
Vietnamese matchlock
A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.
