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Thai gilded silver niello sword

Straight gold inlaid blade and silver-gilt niello mounts.

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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,-
A Tonkinese saber

Northern Vietnam, 19th century

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Broken Tibetan quiver

A once fine example that had a bit of a rough life.

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Thai wooden shield

Made of lacquered wood, it depicts a Chinese-style tiger.

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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,-
Tibetan nomad's whip end

An iron weight that was attached to a long leather strap.

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Ceremonial arrowhead

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

€400,-
Tibetan nomad's whip

Consisting of an iron weight on a long leather strap.

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Solo court keris

With raised gold overlay and gilt-enamel

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Old Hanuman keris holder

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

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17th century Vietnamese lance

With a black and gold metal sleeve, often called "sawasa".

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Large southern silver gilt katar

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

€2400,-
Punjabi khanda for court of Ratlam

The hilt carries an inscription dating it to 1841.

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Fine Kutch horse head shamshir

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

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Group of mounted Indian arrows

Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.

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Flintlock lance

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

€7500,-
Large sipar fouladi (wootz shield)

North Indian shield entirely made of wootz, including its bosses.

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Southern Indian child's talwar

With an inscription alluding to it having belonged to the son of Tipu Sultan.

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Rajput katar with rubies and diamonds

Of steel construction with gold overlay. Of a type produced in Rajasthan in the early 1800s.

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Silver chevron katar

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

€3800,-
Garsoee katar

An enigmatic type of katar produced in various places in India.

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Indian jade hilted dagger

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

€5400,-
Gilt-copper hilted kard

Fine Indian kard with gilt copper alloy hilt, decorated with chiseled flowers.

€2200,-
Firanghi with gold overlaid hilt

The manner of decoration is entirely geometrical, which is very hard to do right.

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Ganga Jamni decorated kard

Ganga - Jamni refers to the rivers of the Ganges and Jamna. It was used to describe metalwork done in contrasting…

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Marwari talwar with 1857 dated hilt

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

€2200,-
A Fraser talwar from the Deccan

Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.

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A Fraser talwar, 18th century

Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.

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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,-
Silver mounted dha

With entirely silver covered hilt and silver mounts on scabbard.

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Mindan dha

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

€1200,-
Burmese dha with interesting blade

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

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Plain dha with baldric

Nice plain dha as used in Yunnan, Burma, and northern Thailand. Complete with baldric.

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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.

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Bali straight keris

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

€2000,-
Bali buntel mayat keris

Bali keris with fine slanted wrapped pamor, considered to be one of the most powerful pamor.

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European sword blade keris

In the style of a Malay keris panjang.

€1750,-
Vietnamese wooden shield

Rare type of rectangular wooden shield from Vietnam.

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Vietnamese shortsword

A short version of the Vietnamese kiếm sword with a finely carved horn hilt.

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Southern katar with yali langets

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

€1650,-
Southern katar with thick point

The blade with an extremely thick point on a very thin blade.

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Double bladed katar

Also called jamdhar doulicaneh. Forged from a single piece of steel, complete with scabbard.

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Northern wootz katar

With different types of decor on either side of the hilt.

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Vijayanagara hooded katar

With crisp, extremely very well-preserved wootz blade.

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Very fine Mindan dha

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

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