Items | Mandarin Mansion

Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

€575,-
SE Asian dha (carbon 14 dated)

In excavated condition. With XRF and radiocarbon dating results.

€600,-
West-Javanese gobang

The sword of the Sundanese people of the Preanger highlands.

€650,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Unusual Chinese saber

Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.

€750,-
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

€1000,-
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,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1500,-
A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

€1600,-
Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

€1750,-
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,-
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,-
Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

€2000,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Boy's brass hilted patá

With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

€2200,-
Nimble Vietnamese saber

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

Reserved
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

€3300,-
Goat hilted Khyber sword

With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

€3300,-
Khanda with etched blade

A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

€3500,-
Suneate with Dutch leather

A pair of Samurai shin protectors finished with Dutch "goudleer".

€3600,-
Gilt duanjian with foreign blade

Unusual Chinese duanjian with fine gilt mounts and a blade of non-Chinese origin.

€3800,-
Kutch shamshir for Benson

Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

€5200,-
Chinese tiger shield

A large Chinese rattan shield called tengpai, used by special front-line troops.

€6000,-
Mamluk style sword in talwar hilt

Chiseled with a rare type of decor on the base, and with two Islamic inscriptions.

€6500,-
Tongzhou incident 29th army dàdāo

With markings attributing it to the Tongzhou incident and a Japanese surrender tag.

€9500,-
Sinhalese kasthāné dated 1776

A very fine specimen with VOC blade and ruby-set scabbard.

Price on request
Kunikiyo wakizashi, Yamano test cut

A wakizashi by master Kunikiyo, tested by the most famous sword tester of 17th century Japan.

€18000,-