Canton tsuba with 28 "jewels"
Canton work for the Japanese market, with 28 metal balls in separate compartments.
€1500,-An early "piha-kaetta"
Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.
€1500,-Qing openwork saber guard
A very rare Chinese saber guard dating from the height of the Qing dynasty.
€1500,-Southern Chinese húdiédāo set
Wide-bladed pair with eccentric hilt features. Complete with scabbard.
€1600,-Southern katar with yali langets
Of a style often associated with Tanjore, the seat of the Vijayanagara empire.
€1650,-Aoi-gata tsuba with foreigners
Unusual tsuba with foreign figures and Chinese auspicious symbols.
€1800,-The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha
Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.
€1800,-A fine 19th century khukurī
With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.
€1800,-A milam of the Garo
This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.
€1800,-The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu
A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.
€1900,-Large tin chirra kothimora khukuri
An exceptionally large example with a desirable three fullered blade.
€1950,-Rare Santali shield
Peculiar shield with catching hook, used by the Santali people of Bengal.
€2000,-Yagami school nanban tsuba
A masterpiece of the genre. The Yagami school were excellent carvers of iron.
€2000,-Chinese military saber marked 1876
Southern Chinese officer style saber with later inscription H.Hunt 1876.
€2000,-South Kalimantan parang
Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.
€2000,-Ladder wootz Kurdish dagger
This unassuming dagger has one of the finest wootz blades with a tight ladder pattern.
€2000,-Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt
The hilt is in the typical Marwari Rajput style, made by Ram Namar in 1857 A.D.
€2200,-Gilt-copper hilted kard
Fine Indian kard with gilt copper alloy hilt, decorated with chiseled flowers.
€2200,-Large Qing military sword
Probably of Southern origin, with a straight blade and flaring tip.
€2200,-Very good sikin panjang
Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.
€2200,-A fine mid 19th century khukurī
An understated, elegant khukuri of substantial proportions with fine layered blade.
€2200,-Chilanum dagger
Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".
€2300,-Gold mounted presentation khukurī
Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.
€2500,-A fine hanshee
Early type with very shallow notch in the blade and little flare in the pommel.
€2750,-Outstanding set of húdiédāo
A set of the rarer long and wide variety with very well-carved hilts and good overall finish.
€2800,-Ming period stirrups
Forged iron, swiveled stirrups with an entirely beaded frame and openwork platforms.
€3000,-Southern Chinese openwork sword guard
In the style of northern work of the 16th and 17th centuries
€3000,-Pierced iron saddle bows
This kind of fine work is typical for Tibetan work of the 15th-16th centuries.
€3200,-A Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.
€3200,-Agate hilted wootz khanjar
Nice Persian dagger with fine wootz blade and unusual hilt material.
€3500,-Unusual khukurī with gold grooves
With a very fine Nepalese blade, but kard-like hilt and scabbard.
€3500,-