Items | Mandarin Mansion

Rare Vietnamese pellet bow set

An exceedingly rare set with fine mother of pearl inlaid string board

€6000,-
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"

In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.

€650,-
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

€1300,-
Transcaucasian kindjal

With a rare single-edged blade with tight fullering.

€1900,-
Silver overlaid Tibetan shortsword

With a rare, finely forged double hairpin blade.

€3500,-
Pierced iron saddle bows

This kind of fine work is typical for Tibetan work of the 15th-16th centuries.

€3750,-
Ceremonial arrowhead

Made of iron, shaped as a gourd, with silver overlay.

€400,-
Old Hanuman keris holder

A charming Balinese keris holder in the form of Hanuman, the brave monkey king.

Price on request
Japanese inspired Asian sword

Inspired by uchigatana brought into Vietnam by Japanese refugees who settled along the coast.

€1300,-
Very good Mindan dha

With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.

€2500,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

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

€2000,-
Mindan dha

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

€1200,-
A plain dha

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

€450,-
Tibetan dpa'dam with belt hook

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

Price on request
Bali straight keris

With fine flaming pamor blade and notched "cekah redut" hilt.

€2000,-
European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.

€16000,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

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

€4000,-
Parang latok

A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.

€2800,-
Silver hilted keris coteng

A textbook example of this rare and early type of keris.

€3200,-
Batad Ifugao hinālung

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

€800,-
Later South Nias belatu

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

€1100,-
A Khasi dao

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

€3200,-
Rare beladau lebar dagger

A rare type of dagger from South Kalimantan, loosely based on Islamic daggers seen worn by traders.

€475,-
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Unusual Chinese saber

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

€750,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

Found in excavated condition, published with results of c-14 and XRF analysis.

€1000,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1800,-
An excavated dha sword

With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.

€700,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€1800,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

With iron, silver overlaid hilt. Its associated scabbard features fine quillwork.

€1800,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

Thought to have been presented by the Royal House of Nepal.

€3000,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.

€5000,-
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,-
Large tin chirra kothimora khukuri

An exceptionally large example with a desirable three fullered blade.

€2200,-
A Sumbawa Kabeala

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

€1250,-
A large Vietnamese falchion

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

€1100,-