Items | Mandarin Mansion

A Sinhalese knife

Rarely seen today, a commoner's example with carved, bone hilt.

€200,-
Sinhalese kirichchiya

With carved horn hilt and characteristic finger guard.

€300,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

Signed: Ricky Milnes, India 44, Burma 44, Ramree 45.

€400,-
Indian betel box

Made of brass and bronze, now deeply patinated.

€400,-
Indian Antelope Axe

An enigmatic type of axe, this one probably from tribal north India.

€900,-
An early "piha-kaetta"

Of nice quality, with unusual openwork silver bolster with serapendiya.

€1500,-
Heavy armor piercing katar

With a narrow blade of impressive thickness. Attributable to the Bundelkhand area.

€1600,-
Southern katar with yali langets

Of a style often associated with Tanjore, the seat of the Vijayanagara empire.

€1650,-
A fine, heavy piha kaetta

Of the chopper variety, with a finely carved ivory hilt.

€1650,-
Rare bifurcated Khond axe

Very rare subtype of a Khond tribal axe with double points.

€1650,-
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,-
Sinhalese pihiya

A beautiful black coral hilted example, made in the King's workshops.

€1800,-
Transcaucasian kindjal

With a rare single-edged blade with tight fullering.

€1900,-
Rare Santali shield

Peculiar shield with catching hook, used by the Santali people of Bengal.

€2000,-
Unusual khyber knife

With forge folded, overlaid blade.

€2150,-
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,-
Chilanum dagger

Somewhat worn but once very high-quality, with great sculptural qualities and remains of silver "true inlay".

€2300,-
Large southern silver gilt katar

Its hilt overlaid with thick silver, then fire-gilt.

€2400,-
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,-
Silver chevron katar

All the designs being true inlay, with almost no losses.

€3800,-
Persian painted shield

Persian steel shield with fine Qajar style painted dome.

€5000,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

With wootz blade and the jade hilt set with small rubies.

€5400,-
South Indian cobra tip sword

An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip.

€7200,-
A fine Sindh flintlock

A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with…

€7300,-
Flintlock lance

A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.

€7500,-
Persian mirror case by Riza Al-Imami

Made of pasteboard, finely lacquered with roses and nightengales.

€9600,-
Indian enamel and wootz dagger

With designs of animals, often attributed to Lucknow, north India.

€15000,-
Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.

€16000,-
Very good Deccan chilanum

A large example in excellent state of preservation.

€16000,-
Indian Jade mounted dagger

Nice and complete with opaque green hilt and scabbard mounts.

Price on request
Fine Kutch horse head shamshir

The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.

Price on request
Persian wootz armor set

Consisting of shield, helmet and arm protector.

€32000,-