Items | Mandarin Mansion

Japanese inspired Asian sword

Inspired by uchigatana brought into Vietnam by Japanese refugees who settled along the coast.

€1600,-
Very good Mindan dha

With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.

€2500,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.

€2000,-
Silver mounted dha

With entirely silver covered hilt and silver mounts on scabbard.

Sold
Mindan dha

Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandalay, gained fame in the 19th century.

€1200,-
Burmese dha with interesting blade

With inscriptions on blade, unusual grooves, and brass inlaid copper mounts.

€800,-
Plain dha with baldric

Nice plain dha as used in Yunnan, Burma, and northern Thailand. Complete with baldric.

Sold
A plain dha

Of a type likely produced by the Shan people and traded widely in the region.

€450,-
Vietnamese wooden shield

Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.

Sold
Vietnamese shortsword

A short version of the Vietnamese kiếm sword with a finely carved horn hilt.

Sold
Very fine Mindan dha

Introduction Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandala

€5600,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

Of the silver overlaid type made in Mindan, with an unusual story on the blade.

€4000,-
Cambodian long saber

Sized like the Chinese changren dadao, yet the execution of the hilt is Cambodian.

Sold
Chinese demon head saber

Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt

Sold
Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

Sold
Khmer dagger

A rare thousand-year-old dagger from the Khmer empire.

Sold
Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard

It represents the best of Burmese silversmithing with repousse work in high relief.

Sold
A Khasi dao

These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

€3200,-
Tonkinese saber

Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.

Sold
Nimble Vietnamese saber

With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.

Sold
Montagnard short saber

Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Sold
Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.

Sold
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Flame backed double swords

With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

Sold
Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

Sold
Pair of Siamese royal pole arms

With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.

Sold
The O.T. Burne dha

With silver overlaid blade and silver mounts worked in repousse. With some of Burne's personal items.

Sold
Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

Sold
Chin nicotine flask

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

Sold
A streaked lin gin

These ornate versions with hairpin forged blades were worn by local royalty.

Sold
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

Sold
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1000,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.

€1800,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

Sold
Good Vietnamese dagger

An unusually ornate version of what is normally a very simple weapon.

Sold
Vietnamese knife

A simple early 20th-century fighting dagger with ribbed grip.

Sold
Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

Sold
French sword for the King of Siam

With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.

Sold
A rare Burmese spear

A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.

Sold
Brass mounted Thai dáap

A charming and somewhat unusual example of a Thai dáap (ดาบ).

Sold
Plain mounted Mindan dha

Plain when sheathed, unsheathing reveals a rather nice silver overlaid blade.

Sold
Early silver Burmese dha

With elaborate silver overlaid blade and inlaid iron hilt.

Sold
Burmese silver overlaid dha

On a sturdy, user-grade blade with temper line.

Sold
Tribal Kachin dha

A typical example with a nice forge folded blade with differential heat treatment.

Sold
Vietnamese crook handled cane

With a finely crafted silver handle with dragons and squirrels, mounted on a malacca cane.

Sold
A Vietnamese Christian cross

Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.

Sold
A Vietnamese matchlock musket

Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.

Sold
Heavy Sino-Vietnamese dagger

With a very thick and heavy blade and nicely worked brass mounts.

Sold
Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

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

Sold
Fine Chinese Shan dha

Entirely clad in silver and with a differentially heat treated blade.

Sold
A Mindan / Yamethin dha

With fine overlaid blade this area was known for.

Sold