Chinese cavalry matchlock
Background While the Chinese are hailed for inventing gunpowder and the
SoldTrousse with "horse-tooth" blade
Accomplished by bending the edge up and down alternately and polishing it smooth again.
SoldChinese trousse set with glass trinkets
Introduction Sets with a knife and chopsticks and sometimes some other utensils were co
SoldQing dynasty hunter's powder flask
IntroductionThe elite of the Qing dynasty was Manchu, who before taking over China from
SoldChinese trousse with inlaid iron mounts
Background Sets with a knife and chopsticks -and sometimes some other utensils- were co
SoldTaiwanese Aboriginal Pingpu knife
Introduction The Island of Taiwan was briefly under Dutch colonial rule in the 17th cen
SoldOttoman knife by Manceaux, Paris
Of superior quality manufacture, combining a mix of European and Ottoman taste.
SoldRare iconographic Mongolian style knife
Introduction Many Mongols, the Khalkas in particular, had close ties with the Manchu ru
SoldChinese jade handled dagger
It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.
SoldDzeferdar miquelet rifle
With Ottoman twisted "damascus" barrel and fine mother-of-pearl inlaid stock.
SoldChinese trousse in Mongolian style
With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.
SoldSino-Vietnamese fighting knife
A Chinese style fighting knife probably made in Yunnan or Vietnam.
SoldA fine "boyliya" paragun
One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
SoldA fine Sindh flintlock
A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with…
SoldA very rare Japanese knife
With a blade with a concave edge, in stained deerhorn mounts with fine silver wire inlays.
SoldGolden inlaid Korean jangdo
Made of blackened copper-gold alloy, finely inlaid with poems in pure gold.
SoldA fine Yunnan Dai dagger
With characteristic bulb pommel and silver plating on hilt and scabbard.
SoldFine Tibetan gem studded dagger
A very rare type of dagger that originates from the borderlands of Eastern Tibet and Sichuan.
SoldPaiwan tjakit with provenance
It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.
SoldStudded Eastern Tibetan dagger
Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.
SoldPolished Sino-Vietnamese dagger
A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.
SoldCaucasian silver niello miquelet pistol
Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.
SoldMuramasa masterpiece tantō
A masterpiece by the "cursed" smith, active in the early 16th century.
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