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Golden kabuto with iron menpo

A striking battle helmet from the Momoyama period of 1568-1600 A.D.

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Signed Chinese rattan shield

This one has the early, peaked form and is signed by its maker.

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Large Chinese hunting knife

With fine blade in recent polish. With resting scabbard.

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Studded Eastern Tibetan dagger

Of Kham area regional style, with a grip studded with turquoises and corals.

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Ottoman Kurdish kalkan

A small, heavily reinforced buckler as used by Ottoman Kurdish infantry.

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Sabiki or "Wahhabite jambiya"

With a long, sword-like blade characteristic of this type. With original belt.

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A "Mecca" Jambiya

A style of dagger often associated with the pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Paiwan tjakit with provenance

It was collected by Laurens Langewis, an early 20th-century ethnographer and author.

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Fine Tibetan gem studded dagger

A very rare type of dagger that originates from the borderlands of Eastern Tibet and Sichuan.

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A fine Yunnan Dai dagger

With characteristic bulb pommel and silver plating on hilt and scabbard.

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Stone-hilted pesh-kabz

A very large example with a strongly reinforced tip and stone handle scales.

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Pashtun dagger

With blonde horn grip scales and brass plated scabbard.

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Pesh kabz with horn plated hilt

An excellently designed thrusting dagger with T-spine and sharp tip.

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Japanese steel plate

Worked in repousse, possibly once part of an ornamental piece of armor.

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Kusari katabira zukin

Japanese mail set, with small ring vest and coif sewn to a thick cotton undergarment.

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Heavy Sino-Vietnamese dagger

With a very thick and heavy blade and nicely worked brass mounts.

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A katar from Sindh

With markings suggesting it was a wedding gift, presented in 1832.

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Sino-Vietnamese fighting knife

A Chinese style fighting knife probably made in Yunnan or Vietnam.

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Persian "khanjar" dagger

With finely chiseled steel hilt and scabbard

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Chinese trousse in Mongolian style

With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.

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Fine mail shirt, Sikh Empire

With a lozenge pattern of brass rings.

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A fine Korean eunjangdo

With all silver construction, including the blade.

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Southern Chinese double knives

With carved hardwood grips. Complete with pigskin scabbard.

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Chinese téngpái

The famous tiger faced rattan shield as used by Chinese skirmishers.

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Ottoman style dagger

Fine and unusual, with Italian renaissance style decoration.

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Korean knife or eunjangdo

Description A small Korean knife called eunjangdo, literally "

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Chinese jade handled dagger

It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.

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Rare iconographic Mongolian style knife

Introduction Many Mongols, the Khalkas in particular, had close ties with the Manchu ru

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Ottoman knife by Manceaux, Paris

Of superior quality manufacture, combining a mix of European and Ottoman taste.

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Ancient Ba-Shu dagger

From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.

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Taiwanese Aboriginal Pingpu knife

Introduction The Island of Taiwan was briefly under Dutch colonial rule in the 17th cen

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Chinese trousse with inlaid iron mounts

Background Sets with a knife and chopsticks -and sometimes some other utensils- were co

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Silver mounted Ottoman dagger

Description A nice Balkan Ottoman dagger of a type called hançer

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Imjin wars period helmet

Description An early type of Korean soldier's helmet.

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A silver-niello Ottoman bichaq

Description An Ottoman bichaq, literally "knife", shaped like a yata

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A wide Chinese fighting knife

With the relatively rare feature of a raised backedge.

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Qing Bannerman's helmet

Of a type worn among others by the Valiant Cavalry.

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Chinese trousse set with glass trinkets

Introduction Sets with a knife and chopsticks and sometimes some other utensils were co

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A large Manchu knife

Of a type also issued to the Qing Vanguard.

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Ottoman bichaq (knife)

Description An Ottoman bichaq, literally "knife", shaped like

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Trousse with "horse-tooth" blade

Accomplished by bending the edge up and down alternately and polishing it smooth again.

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A fine Chinese trousse set

In emerald green scabbard and with fan case.

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