Items | Mandarin Mansion

A plain dha

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

€450,-
Rare beladau lebar dagger

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

€475,-
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.

€800,-
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

€800,-
Burmese dha with interesting blade

With inscriptions on blade, unusual grooves, and brass inlaid copper mounts.

€800,-
Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

€900,-
An old dha (carbon 14 dated)

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

€1000,-
Later South Nias belatu

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

€1100,-
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,-
Japanese inspired Asian sword

Inspired by uchigatana brought into Vietnam by Japanese refugees.

€1600,-
Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

€1750,-
European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Balinese spearhead with scabbard

With fine twist-core pamor and carved wooden scabbard.

€1800,-
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha

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

€1800,-
Preanger sword with VOC blade

Blade marked with VOC Amsterdam monogram, and the year 1769.

€2000,-
Mindan Ramayana dha

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

€2000,-
Very good sikin panjang

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

€2200,-
Bali straight keris

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

€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 hilted keris coteng

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

€3200,-
Dha with story of Maung Tin

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

€4000,-
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

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

€5000,-
Very fine Mindan dha

Introduction Fine silver overlaid dha made in Mindan village, south of Mandala

€5600,-