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Vietnamese dha in early style

Wih fine embossed silver mounts and an unusual blade with spiked tip.

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Chinese dish with lady mary and child

A rare early dish meant for a Christian market.

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Burmese silver lime container

Finely worked in repousse with ten figures on container and lid.

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Qing powder flask

Southern Chinese style with birds in plum branches.

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Mandailing sword

A very rare sword of a type that may be attributable to the Mandailing people of West Sumatra.

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Padang highlands sword

A rare type of Sumatran sword, often attributed to the Padang Highlands

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A rare Sumatran sword

With a blade often associated with the Mandailing of Sumatra.

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Rencong from Aceh

A good example of this peculiar style of Sumatran dagger.

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Muramasa masterpiece tantō

A masterpiece by the "cursed" smith, active in the early 16th century.

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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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Fine wootz khanjar

With early blade of "brilliant black" wootz.

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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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Qing imperial jade hilted dagger

An extremely rare dagger, made in the Qing court workshops.

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Ainu dagger

Called kuttom-ushbe in the local language. This one mounted in deer antler mounts.

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Miniature Ainu makiri

Despite its size it is of remarkably fine workmanship.

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A large Qing dàdāo

Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

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Black velvet Beijing hat

The hat traditionally worn by Beijingese gentlemen.

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Southern Chinese military bamboo helmet

The archetype Chinese bamboo helmet that is often seen on early photos.

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Painted conical bamboo helmet

DescriptionAn old Chinese conical helmet of a type that militiamen and foot soldiers wor

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Twisted hilt knife

Unusual Chinese knife with a twisted hilt with horn scales.

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Unusual bone and horn trousse

DescriptionAn unusual Chinese trousse set.

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Inlaid lacquer trousse set

Unusual Chinese trousse set with "friends of winter" theme.

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Pair of fine Yunnan knives

Carrying Chinese silver marks on their scabbard mounts.

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Canton tsuba with ship

Made in Canton, China, for the Japanese market.

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Pierced silver buckle

Made of solid silver, in Qing court style. With 19th-century European import marks.

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Colonial revolving matchlock gun

With five chamber canister. The whole in silver gilt overlay with Vietnamese decorative elements.

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Tibetan nomad's whip end

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

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Repeating pellet crossbow stock

A very rare variety of the Chinese repeating crossbow that shoots large pellets.

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Qing jiàn in later mounts

Qing period blade in very nicely made early 20th century mounts.

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Chinese matchlock pistol

The first of its kind I've ever seen on the market.

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Chinese jade hilted knife

With fine quality jade hilt and baitong mounted scabbard.

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Tibetan nomad's whip

Consisting of an iron weight on a long leather strap.

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Late Qing tuánliàn jiàn

Long yet light, with unusual flower-shaped iron guard.

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Large Ming tuánliàn jiàn

A large piece dating from the Ming-Qing transition period of the 17th century.

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Southern Bannermen Hǔyádāo

A pair, both with Banner markings, one Manchu and one Hanjun.

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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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Persian dagger with erotic scene

The walrus ivory hilt is expertly carved. The blade is wootz with fine gold overlay.

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Silver overlaid pèidāo

A Qing officer saber with silver overlay on the blade.

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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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Early Mughal kapwah

An over 400-year-old Mughal court dagger. Once lavishly decorated with gold.

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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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