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Silver overlaid Chinese hook sword

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

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Echizen Kanenori tachi

A fine, Circa 400-year-old blade in 19th-century tachi mountings.

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Fine mid Qing matchlock musket

With a golden damascened lock of the Indo-Portuguese type.

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17th century Javanese tombak

With floral overlay, kinatah, typical for the period.

€5500,-
Japanese battle flag

Resist-dyed cotton in white and indigo, with three fans mon.

€2000,-
Vietnamese dha in early style

Wih fine embossed silver mounts and an unusual blade with spiked tip.

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South Kalimantan parang

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

€2000,-
Sumatran sword with gold covered hilt

A fine example, probably meant for Palembang royalty.

€5500,-
Hawk and pine tsuba

Carved out of copper alloy with details highlighted in gold.

€250,-
Fine pierced nanban tsuba

Very delicate work with carved guardian lions.

€500,-
Small Chinese saber guard

Of pierced iron, elaborately cut with lotus petal border.

€1200,-
Aoi-gata tsuba with foreigners

Unusual tsuba with foreign figures and Chinese auspicious symbols.

€1800,-
Iron nanban ship tsuba

Pierced and chiseled showing an 18th century European vessel.

€475,-
Hirado Kunishige fuchi

One of his classic designs, signed by the maker.

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Unusual nanban tsuba

Very finely carved with designs reminiscent of export wares.

€500,-
17th century Chinese saber guard

With the swirling arabesque motifs that are typical for this period.

€5500,-
Tang dynasty horse head

Mounted on a custom hardwood stand

€1600,-
Nyamba keris hilt with seal

Rare old keris handle made into a European wax seal.

€1500,-
Unusual Indonesian carved grip

Made of carved wood with metal inlays for eyes and mouth.

€450,-
Batak bullet holder

Carved of amber-colored horn, with an ancestral face with metal inlays.

€850,-
Dayak bamboo container

Carved with typically Dayak aso motifs.

€800,-
Burmese silver manuscript holder

For holding and protecting important documents.

€650,-
Burmese silver lime container

Finely worked in repousse with ten figures on container and lid.

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Qing powder flask

Southern Chinese style with birds in plum branches.

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Japanese lacquered sword stand

With scenes of pine trees and three drawers.

€3200,-
Fine Qing powder flask

Very good example with a finely carved warrior scene.

€3000,-
62 plate kabuto with maedate

Each plate with raised rib, the visor embossed with simulated eyebrows.

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Chinese export lacquer box

A nice example with unusually fine lacquerwork and a monogram in the lid.

€3800,-
Early Edo samurai armor

Very heavy armor, made for business.

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Mother of pearl inlaid katana kake

In black and gold urushi lacquer, with fine mother-of-pearl inlays with aquatic landscapes on both sides.

€8000,-
Fine Sōshū tantō

A fine tantō forged in the Sōshū tradition with Hon'Ami Koson sayagaki.

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Mandailing sword

A very rare sword of a type that may be attributable to the Mandailing people of West Sumatra.

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Padang highlands sword

A rare type of Sumatran sword, often attributed to the Padang Highlands

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A rare Sumatran sword

With a blade often associated with the Mandailing of Sumatra.

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Rencong from Aceh

A good example of this peculiar style of Sumatran dagger.

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Muramasa masterpiece tantō

A masterpiece by the "cursed" smith, active in the early 16th century.

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Thai gilded silver niello sword

Straight gold inlaid blade and silver-gilt niello mounts.

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Rare Vietnamese pellet bow set

An exceedingly rare set with fine mother of pearl inlaid string board

€6000,-
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"

In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.

€650,-
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

€1300,-
A Tonkinese saber

Northern Vietnam, 19th century

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Thai wooden shield

Made of lacquered wood, it depicts a Chinese-style tiger.

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Qing imperial jade hilted dagger

An extremely rare dagger, made in the Qing court workshops.

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Ainu dagger

Called kuttom-ushbe in the local language. This one mounted in deer antler mounts.

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Miniature Ainu makiri

Despite its size it is of remarkably fine workmanship.

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A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

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Black velvet Beijing hat

The hat traditionally worn by Beijingese gentlemen.

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Southern Chinese military bamboo helmet

The archetype Chinese bamboo helmet that is often seen on early photos.

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Painted conical bamboo helmet

DescriptionAn old Chinese conical helmet of a type that militiamen and foot soldiers wor

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Chinese bamboo helmet

As worn by Southern Chinese military and militiamen.

€300,-
Twisted hilt knife

Unusual Chinese knife with a twisted hilt with horn scales.

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Unusual bone and horn trousse

DescriptionAn unusual Chinese trousse set.

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