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Batak bullet holder

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

€850,-
Thai wooden shield

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

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Colonial revolving matchlock gun

With five chamber canister. The whole in silver gilt overlay with Vietnamese decorative elements.

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Vietnamese wooden shield

Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.

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Ceremonial peurise teumaga

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

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A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

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An Indonesian blunderbuss

Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.

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A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.

€5000,-
A Vietnamese matchlock musket

Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.

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Burmese sword carbine

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

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Fine Malay matchlock musket

A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.

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Vietnamese rattan shield

Called khiên in Vietnamese.

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Vietnamese musket with silver lock

Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.

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Vietnamese matchlock

A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.

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