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Matched Vietnamese kiếm pair

With carved stone handles and superb workmanship in silver and mother-of-pearl.

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The O.T. Burne dha

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

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Exceptional Vietnamese saber

With mountings of meticulously worked copper with silver overlays

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Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

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An ivory hilted kiem

The grip made of a single piece, worked in high relief.

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Fine Vietnamese saber

Introduction Most antique Vietnamese sabers on the mar

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Vietnamese double swords

A rare combination of full-length double Vietnamese swords with live blades.

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A spectacular Burmese dha

With overlays of vegetal motifs alternated with animals, actual and mythical.

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A Vietnamese straightsword kiem

With a substantial, quality blade.

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Sulawesi sword with VOC blade

A very good sword from South Sulawesi (Celebes) with silver mounts and a dated VOC blade.

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A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
All-metal ceremonial guom

With captured French blade, ground down to fit.

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A Vietnamese kiem

A very good Vietnamese ceremonial kiem of the Nguyen dynasty.

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Mindan dha with agate pommel

Its blade portraying the story of one of the previous lives of Guatama Buddha.

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Fine inlaid sikin panjang

Complete example with the rarer feature of inlays at the base of the blade.

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Vietnamese straightsword

It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.

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Flame backed double swords

With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

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Silver mounted Sumatran saber

With inscription that reads: Raja Pagaruyung or "ruler of Pagaruyung".

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Vietnamese ceremonial saber

A magnificent example of a Vietnamese ceremonial saber, or guőm.

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A South Nias belatu salà

Rare sword from the headhunters of Nias. Complete with talismanic basket and belt hook.

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Palembang twist-core pedang

A Palembang style sword with a fine twist-core blade and carved hardwood scabbard.

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Large Shan dha

With silver-clad scabbard executed in their typical style.

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A Mindan / Yamethin dha

With fine overlaid blade this area was known for.

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Nimble Vietnamese saber

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

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Very fine Sikin Panjang

With triple tiered golden crown with enamel decor.

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The Rundle dha of 1898

A signed and dated Burmese dha.

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French sword for the King of Siam

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

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

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

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Very good sikin panjang

Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

€2200,-
Chinese Shan presentation dha

Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.

€2000,-
Preanger sword with VOC blade

Blade marked with VOC Amsterdam monogram, and the year 1769.

€2000,-
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung

With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.

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Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

€1750,-
Fine Chinese Shan dha

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

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A streaked lin gin

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

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Ivory hilted dha

An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.

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Rare Modang Mandau

With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.

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A peudeueng peusangan

From the Aceh region, described locally as peudeueng peusangan with a "hulu meu apet" or Indian styled basket hilt.

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Burmese sword carbine

A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.

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The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1500,-
Plain mounted Mindan dha

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

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Vietnamese officer gươm

With staghorn grip finely carved with plum blossoms.

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Early silver Burmese dha

With elaborate silver overlaid blade and inlaid iron hilt.

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A fine Kayan mandau

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

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A Sumbawa Kabeala

With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.

€1250,-
Vietnamese officer saber

General introduction Ornate Vietnamese guőm (

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A very good pedang bentok

Also called klewang sasak by Indonesian collectors.

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A Shan Kachin style dha

A large Kachin style square-ended dha in Shan style mountings.

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A Burmese dha with openwork handle

Made of a single piece of ivory, with a kneeling figure in its base.

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A fine south Nias telögu

With rare pale buffalo horn hilt with gold alloy inlays.

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A large Vietnamese falchion

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

€1100,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

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

€1100,-