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Converted Chinese guard

A purely Chinese guard and not a very ornate one, converted for Japanese use.

€175,-
A humble service khukurī

A 19th-century piece with a simple blade but nicely carved hilt.

€250,-
Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

€250,-
An eccentric khukurī

With engraved spine and unusual all brass pommel.

€275,-
Afghan sickle, called lohar

Of typical design, forged from one piece of iron, overlaid with brass on one side.

€275,-
A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€300,-
Bhutanese dagger

With narrow blade and all brass mounts.

€300,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Half bone hilted khukurī

With wide blade and a two-tone hilt in cattle bone and wood, capped with brass.

€350,-
Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

€350,-
Ceremonial peurise teumaga

Cast brass shield of a purely ceremonial type that was used during sword dances in Aceh.

€350,-
Peony karakusa tsuba

Executed in "nanban style" openwork with chiseled and gold-encrusted peonies.

€350,-
Sawasa style iron guard

Unusual piece with depiction of a foreign figure.

€350,-
Chin nicotine flask

A very rare flask used by Chin men of Burma for sipping nicotine water.

€360,-
Antique Chinese spearhead 2

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

€375,-
Antique Chinese spearhead

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

€400,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

€400,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.

€400,-
Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

€400,-
A Sinhalese kirichchiya

A rare type of Sinhalese dagger with stylized bird hilt and blade with backedge.

€400,-
Cast iron compass rose guard

A peculiar cast iron sword guard, probably from the South China Seas area.

€400,-
Daruma tsuba

A peculiar tsuba with a depiction of Bodhidharma and two dragon chasing a pearl.

€420,-
Rooster fight kozuka

Executed in gold and silver on a shakudō nanako base, with golden back.

€425,-
Signed nakago kozuka

A by-knife for a Japanese sword, with a hilt shaped like a sword tang.

€450,-
Iron ship sword guard

A chiseled iron sword guard depicting a Dutch ship with a figure on its stern.

€450,-
Khukurī in wooden scabbard

The scabbard carved as to closely mimic a tooled leather scabbard.

€450,-
Fine Peranakan belt buckle

This style was produced in Tangerang, just West of Batavia, now Jakarta.

€450,-
Indian spearheads and butt

A set for the beginning collector.

€450,-
Wan-gata tsuba by Kunihiro

Its outer surface is decorated with interlocking swastikas and family crests.

€460,-
Ottoman cartridge pouches

with space for 20 cartridges, complete with powder flask.

€500,-
Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

€500,-
A trousse khukurī

Its scabbard with 12 pockets, with 10 of the items remaining.

€500,-
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

€525,-
A Kenyah mandau

The famous sidearm of the headhunters of Borneo.

Reserved
Malachite Manchu archer's ring

Such rings were worn by Qing dynasty "bannermen" as a sign of their status as a conquest elite.

€600,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

€600,-
Signed nanban style ship tsuba

Signed by an artist named Kanesada from Higo.

€600,-
A "dui chirra" khukuri

Named so after the two ridges that are formed on the bi-fullered blade.

€625,-
A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

€650,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Kiyou-Toujin Tsuba

A Japanese style sword guard made in 17th century Nagasaki Chinatown.

€725,-
South Indian katar with Bikaner marks

An interesting South Indian style katar with an imported European blade.

€750,-
Talwar with Mamluk style blade

In Punjabi style hilt, with elaborately chiseled blade.

€750,-
Chinese hùshǒu with lantsa script

A Chinese sword guard from the 18th century with a Buddhist mantra in lantsa script.

€800,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€800,-
Indian madu parrying weapon

Made with two antelope horns and an iron shield.

€800,-
Asian export sword guard

An interesting pierced iron Asian export sword guard that is part of a small group of guards that

€900,-
Yatağan dated 1790-1791

An old warhorse with several repairs.

€900,-
A fine Kajan mandau

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

€900,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-