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,-
Ceremonial arrowhead

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

€400,-
Ramree veteran khukurī

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

€400,-
Unusual Chinese saber

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

€750,-
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,-
Rare bifurcated Khond axe

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

€1650,-
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,-
European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Sinhalese pihiya

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

€1800,-
A fine 19th century khukurī

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

€1800,-
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,-
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,-
Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

The hilt is in the typical Marwari Rajput style, made by Ram Namar in 1857 A.D.

€2200,-
Large tin chirra kothimora khukuri

An exceptionally large example with a desirable three fullered blade.

€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,-
Gold mounted presentation khukurī

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

€3000,-
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,-
Pierced iron saddle bows

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

€3750,-
Silver chevron katar

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

€3800,-
Indian jade hilted dagger

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

€5400,-
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,-
Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.

€16000,-
Tibetan dpa'dam with belt hook

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

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