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A Japanese nanban style tsuba

Description An interesting little sword guard, of fairly simple form w

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Fine Malay matchlock musket

A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.

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12 North Indian arrows

With katar-tipped heads and dark brown shafts.

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A Bikaner armory dagger

A rare, early south Indian dagger with Bikaner armory markings

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Acehnese peudeueng

With Hindu style basket hilt and local blade in European style.

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Early Chinese shortsword

A classic duanjian, but of somewhat earlier manufacture than most.

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A Palembang sword with British blade

With finely carved horn hilt, silver mounts and reshaped European blade.

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Sword hilted khukurī

A rarer variety with a hilt that takes inspiration from the kora and talwar.

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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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Inlaid lacquer trousse set

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

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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 very good pedang bentok

Also called klewang sasak by Indonesian collectors.

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Asian export disc guard

The design, overlaid in silver, gold, and copper, over a crosshatched background shows dragon amongst clouds.

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Axe with Anup Singh inscription

With a samvat date that corresponds to 1691 A.D.

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A finely forged kora

With very good pattern welded blade, complete with scabbard.

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Chinese trousse in Mongolian style

With heavy pierced silver mounts in with archaic dragon designs.

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Golden damascened boy's katar

A rare example with pattern welded blade, retaining its original scabbard.

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A rare bow from Kashmir

A sinew-backed bow with rather nice lacquer work.

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A fine mutiny era khukuri

An understated, elegant khukuri of substantial proportions with fine layered blade.

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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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A Burmese dha with openwork handle

Made of a single piece of ivory, with a kneeling figure in its base.

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An unusual pihiya (piha kaetta)

Probably from the late Kandyan period.

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Persian wootz spearhead

Made using Persian wootz. Pronounced features, chiseled socket.

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Fine Kinai dragon tsuba

Made by the Kinai group of Echizen, who originated as horimono carvers.

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A Shan Kachin style dha

A large Kachin style square-ended dha in Shan style mountings.

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Chinese yanyuedao

One of the most iconic of Chinese weapons, commonly known as "Guandao"

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A fine Chinese trousse set

In emerald green scabbard and with fan case.

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Vietnamese officer saber

General introduction Ornate Vietnamese guőm (

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Bikaner war axe

Introduction This type of axe was part of the standard equipment of the

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A fine pattern welded kora

Short but substantial, with its protruding tip it's rather mace-like.

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All-steel Bundi katar

The blade features a sunken panel with very finely chiseled "tree of life" motiff of small leaves.

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A fine south Nias telögu

With rare pale buffalo horn hilt with gold alloy inlays.

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Silver mounted dha

With entirely silver covered hilt and silver mounts on scabbard.

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Early silver Burmese dha

With elaborate silver overlaid blade and inlaid iron hilt.

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Igorot headhunter javelin

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

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South Indian spearhead

From Tamil Nadu. With clean lines and precise geometry.

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A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.

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Early Chinese duǎndāo

With rare downward curving grip as seen on artwork of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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A fine Kayan mandau

With less common wooden hilt and elaborately inlaid blade in brass, copper and silver.

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North Nias si euli

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

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Vietnamese shortsword

A short version of the Vietnamese kiếm sword with a finely carved horn hilt.

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A large Tibetan sword (dpa'dam)

Description A large Tibetan sword or dpa'dam, representing its classic form.

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Heavy Rajput katar

A heavy Indian katar with substantial armor piercing blade.

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All steel / wootz dagger

The slender blade is made of flawless wootz steel in boldly contrasting shades of silver and dark grey.

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A south Indian spearhead

A large example of a type called sang.

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The Demon Repeller - Talisman sword

Introduction The Chinese straightsword or jian (劍) was th

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A silver-niello Ottoman bichaq

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

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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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Burmese sword carbine

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

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A Japanese kusarigama

The Japanese kusarigama is a variation of the gama, a scythe-like weapon that

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Vietnamese officer gươm

With staghorn grip finely carved with plum blossoms.

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Large Central Asian composite bow

With design features reminiscent of Persian and Indian bows.

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