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Pair of Siamese royal pole arms

With naginata-style blades, and lavish gilt copper mounts.

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17th century Vietnamese lance

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

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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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A rare Burmese spear

A fine example with silver overlaid spearhead and silver ferrule with niello inlay.

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Khmer dagger

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

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Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

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Balinese keris with stones in gold

Undulating bilah blade of eleven luk.

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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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A fine Philippine bolo

The blade inlaid with brass, complete with a horn scabbard with pierced decoration.

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Dayak carved ceremonial paddle

A fine ceremonial paddle of the Ngaju Dayak of southern Borneo.

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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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A very good Philippine bolo

With beautifully carved horn grip.

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Solo court keris

With raised gold overlay and gilt-enamel

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Ceremonial Moro kalis

Measuring almost a meter, with exceptional blade for a ceremonial keris.

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A Vietnamese Christian cross

Constructed out of dense hardwood and with fine mother-of-pearl inlays in the Vietnamese fashion.

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Burmese sword carbine

A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.

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North Nias si euli

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

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Igorot headhunter javelin

With exceptionally wide blade, forged with a hardened leading edge.

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A rare Philippine fighting knife

A rare Philippine fighting knife, probably from Luzon island. It has a very well-made blade.

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A rare kudi trantang

A rare variation of one of the rarest forms of Indonesian arms.

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Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

A heavy Sin-Vietnamese fighting knife, with recently polished blade.

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Vietnamese crook handled cane

With a finely crafted silver handle with dragons and squirrels, mounted on a malacca cane.

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Good Vietnamese dagger

An unusually ornate version of what is normally a very simple weapon.

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Sumatran keris panjang

A type of long keris often described as "execution keris".

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Southeast Asian sword club

This enigmatic hardwood club is modeled after a sword.

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Fine Peranakan belt buckle

This style was produced in Tangerang, just West of Batavia, now Jakarta.

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West-Javanese stiletto dagger

Early piece with an unusual European-style stiletto blade.

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Ceremonial yem nguyệt đao

Modeled after the Chinese "guan dao", made of lacquered wood.

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Heavy Sino-Vietnamese dagger

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

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Wood hilted dahmjaun

With iron ferrule and copper and silver overlaid blade.

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Old Madura keris

With carved wooden hilt with a beautiful deep patina. Blade in old finish.

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Chin nicotine flask

A very rare flask used by Chin men of Burma for sipping nicotine water.

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Bird head sewar dagger

A charming little sewar dagger from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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Balinese keris

A classic example with an older blade and timaha wood scabbard.

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Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

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An Acehnese rencong

A peculiar form of dagger found on the northern part of the island of Sumatra.

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Sino-Vietnamese fighting knife

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

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Indonesian cockfighting spurs in box

Weapons not for man, but for an unfortunate rooster. Retired, in a hardwood box.

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A giant piso raout

An oversized utility knife of the headhunters of Borneo.

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Peranakan "pending" buckle

Belt buckle from West-Java, worn by Peranakan and wealthy Javanese women.

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Vietnamese knife

A simple early 20th-century fighting dagger with ribbed grip.

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