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Language: Thai
Source: Period dictionary

Description

Dàap (ดาบ) is the Thai word for sword. In particular, the long curved sword with a long grip.

The first mention of the word is in a Thai-English dictionary of 1833, compiled by Eliza Grew Jones, a member of a Baptist missionary to Burma.1

 

Notes
1. Long thought lost, the manuscript was rediscovered in the British Museum in 2007 and digitized here.

 

A Thai daap

A Thai dàap (ดาบ).
Mandarin Mansion stock 2020.

 

 

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Typical Chinese hook sword, with seldom-seen fine silver wire overlay.

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The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.

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An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip.

€7200,-

Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.

€2000,-

A fine example, probably meant for Palembang royalty.

€5500,-

A pair of daishō with blades forged by the Takada smiths of Bungo in the north of Kyūshū.

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