Unusual Vietnamese trường đao

With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.

Wide Sino-Vietnamese knife

Large bowie-type blade with prominent raised backedge.

A Tonkinese saber

Northern Vietnam, 19th century

Colonial revolving matchlock gun

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

17th century Vietnamese lance

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

One of my favorite items...

... and it is not even a weapon!

Chinese demon head saber

Based on a Chinese military saber blade, with unusual horn demon hilt

Group of arms from Tonkin

Probably from the French Tonkin campaign of the 1880s.

Tonkinese saber

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

Polished Sino-Vietnamese dagger

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

Broad Vietnamese knife

Broad bladed example with horn hilt and engraved blade.

Vietnamese single edged spearhead

Large, heavy single-edged example with iron mounts.

Sawasa

A term used for colonial Asian metalwork in black and gold.

A sawasa hunting hanger

Sawasa is a copper-gold alloy that was patinated a "raven black" and then highlights were parcel-gilt.