Items | Mandarin Mansion

Handachi mounted wakizashi

With Nanban-style guard and kozuka. Signed Fujiwara Hisayoshi.

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Hudiedao set with scabbard

Classic pair of Southern Chinese butterfly swords.

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Broken Tibetan quiver

A once fine example that had a bit of a rough life.

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A Fraser talwar, 18th century

Once belonging to William Fraser (1784-1835), a British civil servant.

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Vietnamese matchlock

A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.

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Fine Bhutanese dozum

With heavy mounts executed in silver.

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A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade

With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.

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Village militia dadao

Description A large Chinese double handed falchion of a form that is both related to th

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A large and very good khanjarli

With lunette pommel of ivory plates.

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Qing archer's belt

Made of heavy silk with gilt copper alloy mounts.

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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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Chinese lòukōng sword guard

The archetypical Chinese sword guard that gave rise to the Japanese genre of "nanban tsuba".

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Unusual Indian zulfiqar sword

With bifurcated S-shaped blade in talwar hilt.

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Mongolian target quiver

Combining surplus Qing mounts with Mongol leatherwork.

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Chinese medium size jian

A heavy piece with a substantial blade, with smooth bronze mounts.

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A Persian crescent axe

With lacquered shaft. Previously sold at Sotheby's in 1985.

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Jūn Huǒ Jú-made shuāng shǒudāo

Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

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Afghan military saber

With an armory stamp dated Hijri 1326, corresponding to about 1908.

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A Sinhalese kasthāné

An impressively large kasthāné, dating from the 18th century.

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Preanger sword with VOC blade

Blade marked with VOC Amsterdam monogram, and the year 1769.

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Chinese Shan presentation dha

Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.

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Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.

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An Indian matchlock musket

A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.

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Ming militia sword

An honest, unpretentious fighting weapon of the Ming-Qing period.

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A very rare Japanese knife

With a blade with a concave edge, in stained deerhorn mounts with fine silver wire inlays.

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An Indonesian blunderbuss

Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.

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A fine Indian toradar with inlaid stock

General introduction A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inl

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Antique wootz Qur'an box

Description This very well-made box is entirely made of wootz steel.

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A Punjabi arm guard

Made of steel, decorated with fine gold overlay in a pattern of swastikas.

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Unusual sword from Amdo

Exhibiting an interesting blend of Chinese and Tibetan features.

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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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Sikh fighting chakram

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

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Solo court keris

With raised gold overlay and gilt-enamel

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Very fine Sikin Panjang

With triple tiered golden crown with enamel decor.

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Deccan katar with Bikaner marks

With a hilt that is of typical southern form, with a cupped base and langets.

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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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Chinese repeating crossbow

Perhaps one of the most famous and long-lived of Chinese weapons.

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The Rundle dha of 1898

A signed and dated Burmese dha.

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House of Aviz tsuba

A Japanese sword guard with the cross of the House of Aviz.

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Boy's brass hilted patá

With a charming brass zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

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An interesting Japanese yari

Signed Yasutsugu, with sayagaki referring to the Tokugawa family.

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Sinhalese coral hilted knife

Also known as piha-kaetta, this is more correctly a pihiya.

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Ceremonial Moro kalis

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

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A remarkable Khond axe

The best of its kind known to me, with silver overlay and ivory finial.

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Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

A remarkable example of bladesmithing with a 5 row twist-core pattern that meanders over the blade.

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Large Chinese hunting knife

With fine blade in recent polish. With resting scabbard.

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A good Tibetan sword, dpa'dam

Introduction The dpa'dam of Tibet is a long, single edged swor

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French sword for the King of Siam

With a Parisian blade carrying the royal emblem of King Rama IV.

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Wakizashi in Burmese hilt

An unusual cross-cultural mix, blending Burmese, Japanese and Indian parts.

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A very good Philippine bolo

With beautifully carved horn grip.

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An unusual minority dao

The wide blade with clipped tip mounted on a riveted wooden grip.

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A hanshee khukurī

A rare and sought-after type. This one comes in its original silver mounted scabbard.

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