Items | Mandarin Mansion

A plain dha

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

€450,-
Heavy dha

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

€600,-
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"

In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.

€650,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Batad Ifugao hinālung

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

€700,-
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Later South Nias belatu

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

€900,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

Description A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better n

€1100,-
Mindan dha

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

€1200,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

€1300,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1800,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.

€2000,-
South Kalimantan parang

Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.

€2000,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Very good Mindan dha

With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.

€2500,-
Parang latok

A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.

€2800,-
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Silver overlaid Tibetan shortsword

With a rare, finely forged double hairpin blade.

€3500,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

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

€4000,-
Sumatran sword with gold covered hilt

A fine example, probably meant for Palembang royalty.

€5500,-
Tibetan dpa'dam with belt hook

A large Tibetan sword, known in the local language as dpa'dam.

Price on request