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Thai gilded silver niello sword

Straight gold inlaid blade and silver-gilt niello mounts.

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A Tonkinese saber

Northern Vietnam, 19th century

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Thai wooden shield

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

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Solo court keris

With raised gold overlay and gilt-enamel

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17th century Vietnamese lance

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

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Punjabi khanda for court of Ratlam

The hilt carries an inscription dating it to 1841.

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Group of mounted Indian arrows

Featuring various extremely rare arrows with crescent heads.

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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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Garsoee katar

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

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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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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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Silver mounted dha

With entirely silver covered hilt and silver mounts on scabbard.

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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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Caucasian silver niello miquelet pistol

Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.

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Dagestani shashka dated 1912

A nice Caucasian shashka from Dagestan with a Russian imperial monogram.

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Bali buntel mayat keris

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

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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 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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Slender chilanum dagger

Of elegant form with very crisp blade.

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Sosun pattah with twistcore blade

The hilt with overlay of the finest quality of the period

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16th century left-hand dagger

Nice European parrying dagger, possibly German or Swiss.

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Talwar with 1693 dated blade

With later, elaborately chiseled hilt of very fine quality.

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Sikh fighting chakram

A sharp, heavier user. Not the flimsy type usually encountered.

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Unusual South Nias sword

Of rather clean design for the area, with separate silver mouth with teeth in hilt.

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Deccan firanghi with silver overlay

The basket hilt is elaborately overlaid with silver in floral designs.

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Interesting kirach with dated hilt

Mentioning the son of a Maharajah and a year corresponding to 1887 A.D.

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Fine 17th century pattissa

The enormous blade made of fine, boldly contrasting wootz steel.

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Cambodian long saber

Sized like the Chinese changren dadao, yet the execution of the hilt is Cambodian.

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Chinese demon head saber

Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt

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Early Indian shield

Made of thick lacquered hide, with a single brass boss

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Southeast Asian sword club

This enigmatic hardwood club is modeled after a sword.

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South Nias gari matuwà

A nice belatu with the rarer gari matuwà style blade.

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North Nias si euli

A peculiar type of knife worn in the north of Nias.

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Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

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Khmer dagger

A rare thousand-year-old dagger from the Khmer empire.

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Malabar coast Moplah sword

A fine and somewhat unusual specimen, with engraved brass mounts and hardwood grip.

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Balinese keris of Ferdinand Blok

The 9-luk blade of strong proportions is engraved with the face of a demon.

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Fine Burmese silver sword scabbard

It represents the best of Burmese silversmithing with repousse work in high relief.

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Punjabi koftgari lockbox

Iron lockbox with key, decorated with the gold koftgari normally seen on arms.

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A South Nias belatu salà

Rare sword from the headhunters of Nias. Complete with talismanic basket and belt hook.

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Tonkinese saber

Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.

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Nimble Vietnamese saber

With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.

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