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  • Garlic bulb mace logo

    Chinese garlic mace

    Called suàntóu gǔduǒ in Mandarin, with characteristic brass head.

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  • Chaoyang saber logo

    Chinese saber of the Chaoyang army

    Late 18th century, complete with its original scabbard.

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  • Tibetan or Mongolian quiver logo

    Tibetan or Mongolian quiver

    Of an early type with dramatic widened shape.

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  • Mitsuhiro yari logo

    Yari with kusabi-hi

    Large Japanese spearhead with red lacquered zig-zag groove. Signed Mitsuhiro.

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  • Katana with horse themed koshirae logo

    Katana in horse theme koshirae

    Blade signed Sesshū-jū Fujiwara Hiroyoshi, active in the 1670s-80s.

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  • Ancient bronze Ba-Shu dagger logo

    Ancient Ba-Shu dagger

    From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.

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  • Hudiedao with Tongsheng marking

    Signed húdiédāo set

    Of military style with long, narrow blades and ribbed hardwood grips.

    Gallery
  • Chinese jade bamboo hilt knife logo

    Jade bamboo hilted knife

    With spinach green jade handle and carved buffalo horn scabbard.

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  • Hui dadao

    Chinese Hui sword

    A peculiar Chinese dadao with markings attributing it to a Hui army or battallion.

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  • Jumonji yari

    Jūmonji yari (hozon)

    A fine cross-shaped yari made by Enju Nobakatsu, with NBTHK Hozon papers.

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  • Tibetan style pierced iron pommel plate logo

    Tibetan style pierced saddle plate

    With designs of four dragons in scrollwork around a "wish-granting-jewel"

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  • Finely carved makiri dagger

    Fine Ainu makiri

    An exceptionally well-carved Ainu knife.

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  • Unusual Ainu knife

    Unusual Ainu knife

    Resembling a makiri but with the blade's edge on the opposite side.

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  • 19th century Qing military saber

    19th century Qing military saber

    With massive 10mm thick blade with strong distal taper.

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  • Woyaodao

    A Chinese woyaodao

    Introduction The ridged and facetted blade shape that is so well known

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  • Korean helmet

    Imjin wars period helmet

    Description An early type of Korean soldier's helmet.

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  • Yi or lolo sword

    A Yi / Lolo sword

    Introduction The Yi or Nuosuo people are known as Lolo in early Western ethnographic wr

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  • Handled dagger

    Chinese jade handled dagger

    It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.

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  • Large dadao logo

    An exceptionally large dadao

    With a wide clipped tip with notched upper edge.

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  • Chinese saber mounts

    Antique Chinese saber fittings

    Description An antique set of scabbard fittings for a Chinese saber, probably second ha

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  • Signed Chinese rattan shield

    Signed Chinese rattan shield

    This one has the early, peaked form and is signed by its maker.

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  • Otateage suneate with Dutch goudleer logo

    Suneate with Dutch leather

    A pair of Samurai shin protectors finished with Dutch "goudleer".

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  • A Manchu style bow from the Changxing workshop in Chengdu logo

    A Chinese bow by Changxing

    Rare extant work of a famous workshop in Chengdu.

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  • Chinese scholar's sword

    A Chinese scholar's sword

    Introduction The Chinese straightsword or jiàn (劍) was traditi

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  • Shimosaka o-tanto

    Shimosaka o-tantō

    N.B.T.H.K. Hozon with a set of Nanban-style koshirae with signed tsuba.

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  • Qing edict box

    Qing dynasty imperial edict box

    Used to move imperial orders from the emperor’s quarters to the recipient.

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  • Chinese yataghan saber

    Chinese saber with yatağan style blade

    An extremely rare and possibly unique type of Chinese officer's saber, or peidao, of the 18th century.

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  • Fine gilt duanjian overall

    Gilt duanjian with foreign blade

    Unusual Chinese duanjian with fine gilt mounts and a blade of non-Chinese origin.

    €3200,-
  • Winged dragon tsuba

    Winged dragon tsuba

    A fine and unusually large tsuba. Attributed to Hizen by the NBTHK.

    €3200,-
  • Chinese crescent moon maces logo

    Chinese crescent tipped maces

    A highly unusual set of paired maces with crescent tips.

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  • Large southern Chinese saber

    Large Southern Chinese saber

    Built around a beautifully forged blade, in full polish, revealing a burl grain pattern.

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  • Chinese sword breaker

    Chinese sword breaker

    With tapering blade, hollow ground on each side to make the edges slightly sharper.

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  • Nanban kozuka

    A nanban kozuka / kogatana

    Nanban kozuka are extremely rare, and this is a particularly fine example.

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  • Taiwanese pingpu knife

    Taiwanese Aboriginal Pingpu knife

    Introduction The Island of Taiwan was briefly under Dutch colonial rule in the 17th cen

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  • Western Buryat bowcare and quiver

    Buryat bowcase and quiver

    Of the Western Buryats, living near the shores of Lake Baikal.

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  • Southern saber logo

    Late Qing southern saber

    With differential heat-treatment, creating a cloudy crystalline effect along the edge.

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  • 19th century Qing fangshi peidao logo

    Qing fangshi soldier's saber

    A rare surviving example of the simple military version of this style.

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  • Unusual zhibeidao

    Zhibeidao with spectacular blade

    Introduction to the type This type of sword is referred to as zhibe

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  • Antique Chinese jian logo

    Antique Chinese jian

    A fine Chinese straightsword blade, of typical Qing form with a rather wide profile.

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  • Lalaw sword logo

    Large Atayal lalaw sword

    A particularly nice example with 120 iron bands holding the blade.

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  • Antique Chinese bronze mace logo

    Antique Chinese bronze mace

    Introduction Chinese civilian martial artists used a wide variety of weapons.

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  • Manchu bow with red bellies logo

    A rare Qing bow

    With translucent horn bellies glued on red pigment.

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  • Hook weapons logo

    Chinese crescent moon weapons

    Unusual set of paired Chinese maces of good workmanship.

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  • Yang Wentong bow logo

    Bow by Ju Yuan Hao of Beijing

    Made by the last operational bowyer of China, probably for the Mongolian market.

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  • Antique miaodao logo

    Antique Miaodao

    Miaodao simply being a more recent name for the wodao.

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  • Qijiadao logo

    Qijiadao in Vince Evans mounts

    The 17th-century blade is mounted in fittings designed by Philip Tom and executed by Vince Evans some 20 years ago.

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  • Ming yanchidao saber blade

    Ming dynasty saber blade

    Introduction The Chinese saber comes in a great variety of curvatures, profiles, and wi

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  • Ming dandao

    Ming dandao

    With rare raised backedge.

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  • Double sabers logo

    Chinese shuangdao - double sabers

    With narrow liuyedao blades of moderate curvature.

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  • Eastern Tibetan or Jinchuan dagger logo

    Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger

    Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.

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  • Late Qing jian logo

    A fine late Qing jian

    A step above the norm in quality for this period, with nicely pierced mounts.

    Sold
  • A niuweidao hilt logo

    Niuweidao with Guangxu mark

    Dated 1895. Large and heavy, a quality piece.

    Sold

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