Items
With a black and gold metal sleeve, often called "sawasa".
Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.
With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.
Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.
A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.
Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.
A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.