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  • Fine gilt duanjian overall

    Gilt duanjian with foreign blade

    Unusual Chinese duanjian with fine gilt mounts and a blade of non-Chinese origin.

    €3800,-
  • Malabar coast Moplah sword logo

    Malabar coast Moplah sword

    A fine and somewhat unusual specimen, with engraved brass mounts and hardwood grip.

    €3300,-
  • Kunikiyo wakizashi with horimono tested by Yamano 2 body cut

    Kunikiyo wakizashi, Yamano test cut

    A wakizashi by master Kunikiyo, tested by the most famous sword tester of 17th century Japan.

    €18000,-
  • Sukesada

    Sukesada uchigatana made August 1523

    With a sayagaki by Honma sensei attributing it to Yosozaemon.

    Sold
  • Handachi wakizashi

    Handachi mounted wakizashi

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

    Sold
  • Nias belatu logo

    A South Nias belatu salà

    Rare sword from the headhunters of Nias. Complete with talismanic basket and belt hook.

    Sold
  • Milam sword of the Garo people of Assam

    A milam of the Garo

    This peculiar sword was used by the Garo people of Assam for fighting, clearing the jungle, and animal sacrifices.

    €1800,-
  • Khasi dao

    A Khasi dao

    These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.

    €3200,-
  • Tonkinese saber collected 1885-1887 logo

    Tonkinese saber

    Collected by Victor Auguste Robin, a senior officer of the Tonkin expeditionary force 1885-1887.

    Sold
  • Antique Vietnamese saber logo

    Nimble Vietnamese saber

    With a narrow, double fullered blade and sharp tip and brass mounts in the earlier style.

    Reserved
  • Modang mandau

    Rare Modang Mandau

    With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.

    Sold
  • Montagnard saber logo

    Montagnard short saber

    Of the hill peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam.

    Sold
  • Sikin panjang with inlaid blade

    Fine inlaid sikin panjang

    Complete example with the rarer feature of inlays at the base of the blade.

    Sold
  • South Sulawesi sword VOC marked blade

    Sulawesi sword with VOC blade

    A very good sword from South Sulawesi (Celebes) with silver mounts and a dated VOC blade.

    Sold
  • Javanese tiger hilt sword

    Tiger hilt sword with VOC blade

    With Dutch VOC blade, marked with the Amsterdam monogram.

    €1750,-
  • Preanger gobang sword with dated VOC blade logo

    Preanger sword with VOC blade

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

    €2000,-
  • West Javanese gobang

    West-Javanese gobang

    The sword of the Sundanese people of the Preanger highlands.

    €650,-
  • Dutch military m19898 saber in Sumatran hilt logo

    Sumatran hilted Dutch saber

    Using a possibly captured M1898 "klewang" blade.

    €800,-
  • Qing liedao

    Large Chinese hunting knife

    With fine blade in recent polish. With resting scabbard.

    Sold
  • Goat hilted Khyber sword logo

    Goat hilted Khyber sword

    With gold plated hilt and pattern welded blade.

    €3300,-
  • Laos double swords logo

    Flame backed double swords

    With dramatically shaped blades and inlaid hilts.

    Sold
  • Longquan jian logo

    Good late Qing Longquan jian

    With bat-shaped guard. A very high-quality example for the time period.

    Sold
  • Pata with Solingen blade

    Solingen blade with pata hilt

    Indian gauntlet sword with German blade made in Solingen.

    Sold
  • Bhutanese shortsword logo

    Bhutanese shortsword

    From the P. Holstein collection, published in 1931.

    Sold
  • Vietnamese kiem in Chinese style

    Vietnamese kiếm in Chinese stye

    Utilizing a Chinese guard and following the Chinese hilt design.

    Sold
  • Rajput sosun pattah

    Rajput sosun pattah

    With wootz blade, Marwari style hilt, and its original red velvet scabbard.

    Sold
  • Sosun pattah

    Sosun Pattah

    With Persian wootz blade, engraved at forte with floral designs.

    Sold
  • The dha of O.T. Burne

    The O.T. Burne dha

    With silver overlaid blade and silver mounts worked in repousse. With some of Burne's personal items.

    Sold
  • Kutch pattern welded Shamshir made for Benson

    Kutch shamshir for Benson

    Blade of Persian shamshir form, but of Indian make. Mounts in Kutch style gilt copper.

    €5200,-
  • Marwar talwar presented to Mohta Bakhtawar Singh logo

    Talwar of Mohta Bakhtawar Singh

    A fine Marwari talwar presented to the Dewan (chief minister) of Bikaner in 1756 A.D.

    Sold
  • Nayar sword logo

    Nayar ritual sword

    An unusually ornate iteration of the design, intended for Hindu ceremonies.

    Sold
  • 16th century pattissa logo

    South Indian pattissa

    An early example, late Vijayanagara empire, with a fine wootz spatulate blade.

    Sold
  • Boy's brass hilted pata

    Boy's brass hilted patá

    With charming zoomorphic gauntlet with feline head.

    €2200,-
  • Ottoman sword with twist-core blade

    Ottoman Turkish ribbon sword

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

    Sold
  • Indian khanda with etched blade

    Khanda with etched blade

    A 19th-century type with an etched blade, simulating patterned steel.

    €3500,-
  • An Eastern Tibetan dpa'dam logo

    Eastern Tibetan or Yunnan zhibeidao

    A simple piece, but with a nicely etched blade typical for the Tibetan / Sichuan borderlands.

    €575,-
  • Tibetan pierced iron shortsword logo

    Tibetan shortsword with pierced mounts

    With characteristic pointy hairpin forged blade.

    Sold
  • Afghan military saber logo

    Afghan military saber

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

    Sold
  • Qing military saber with Manchu label logo

    The saber of Manchu Wu Songlu

    A standard pattern Qing military saber, but with the rare addition of a label in Manchu.

    €1900,-
  • Qing dynasty dadao logo

    A large Qing dàdāo

    Large and heavy example with the notable Umlauff provenance.

    €1600,-
  • Palembang pedang benkok with twistcore blade

    Palembang twist-core pedang

    A Palembang style sword with a fine twist-core blade and carved hardwood scabbard.

    Sold
  • Bhutanese patag sword with silver scabbard

    Bhutanese "churi chenm" sword

    This style was worn by nobles and senior officials.

    Sold
  • Tiger stripe talwar

    Talwar with wootz hilt and blade

    With Persian style blade, showing Indian workmanship.

    €3300,-
  • Fine patterned sikin panjang logo

    Very good sikin panjang

    Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.

    €2200,-
  • Jinchuan Fanjian logo

    Jīnchuān shortsword

    Jinchuan aborigines sword, the Qianlong emperor's name for this type of sword.

    Gallery
  • Jun Huo Ju Shuangshoudao logo

    Jūn Huǒ Jú-made shuāng shǒudāo

    Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

    Sold
  • Jun Huo Ju saber logo

    Jūn Huǒ Jú-made saber

    Produced in the ordnance factory in Zengbu, near Guangzhou.

    Sold
  • Murut parapat sword logo

    A Murut parapat

    The sword of the Murut headhunters of northern Borneo.

    Sold
  • Lin gin dha logo

    A streaked lin gin

    These ornate versions with hairpin forged blades were worn by local royalty.

    Sold
  • Medium length Chinese straightsword jian logo

    Chinese medium size jian

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

    Sold
  • Chinese double swords with hook

    Double shortswords with belt hook

    A classic set of Chinese double swords, complete with suspension and hook.

    Sold
  • Kuiwen shuang duanjian logo

    Chinese paired shortswords

    Cantonese double swords with archaic dragon design mounts.

    Sold

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