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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,-
Nyamba keris hilt with seal

Rare old keris handle made into a European wax seal.

€1500,-
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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Thai gilded silver niello sword

Straight gold inlaid blade and silver-gilt niello mounts.

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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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Japanese inspired Asian sword

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

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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.

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Mindan dha

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

€1200,-
Heavy dha

The thick and heavy blade is marked with a script that has yet to be identified.

€600,-
Burmese dha with interesting blade

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

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Plain dha with baldric

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

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A plain dha

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

€450,-
Vietnamese shortsword

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

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Very fine Mindan dha

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

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Dha with story of Maung Tin

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

€4000,-
Parang latok

A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.

€2800,-
Unusual South Nias sword

Of rather clean design for the area, with separate silver mouth with teeth in hilt.

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Cambodian long saber

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

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Chinese demon head saber

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

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Batad Ifugao hinālung

Rare double-edged shortsword of the Ifugao of northern Luzon.

€700,-
South Nias gari matuwà

A nice belatu with the rarer gari matuwà style blade.

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Later South Nias belatu

Nice and complete example with talisman basket. Probably 20th century.

€900,-
Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

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Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard

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

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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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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.

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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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Rare Modang Mandau

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

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Montagnard short saber

Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

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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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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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Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

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Preanger sword with VOC blade

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

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West-Javanese gobang

The sword of the Sundanese people of the Preanger highlands.

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Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Flame backed double swords

With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

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Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

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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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Palembang twist-core pedang

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

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Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
A Murut parapat

The sword of the Murut headhunters of northern Borneo.

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A streaked lin gin

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

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SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

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