Silver saif from Hyderabad
Made in Hyderabad, India, for the Arab market.For sale
Saif Yamani from Oman
The iron-plated hilt has a helmet-shaped pommel and forward projecting quillons.For sale
Ottoman silver mounted kilic
A well-preserved example with the gold overlay almost entirely intact.Best for sale
Serrated edge talwar
With gold koftgari decorated hilt.For sale
South Indian brass hilted talwar
The hilt with remains of silver plating.For sale
Hooded sword katar
Extremely large example with nearly full-length Western blade.For sale
Longquan jiàn by Wan Zi Hao
A Chinese shortsword made by a well-known Longquan maker.For sale
Silver overlaid Chinese hook sword
Typical Chinese hook sword, with seldom-seen fine silver wire overlay.For sale
Fine Kutch horse head shamshir
The style typical of Kutch, the execution far above what is normally seen on work from that area.Best for sale
South Indian cobra tip sword
An early fighting piece with strong reinforcing langet and broad, cobra shaped tip.For sale
South Kalimantan parang
Of typical South Borneo workmanship, but formed like a mandau from Kutai.For sale
SE Asian dha with "Musashi tsuba"
In excavated condition, with copper alloy hilt.For sale
Unusual Vietnamese trường đao
With forward swept iron guard and swollen grip.For sale
Transcaucasian kindjal
With a rare single-edged blade with tight fullering.For sale
Silver overlaid Tibetan shortsword
With a rare, finely forged double hairpin blade.For sale
Large Qing military sword
Probably of Southern origin, with a straight blade and flaring tip.For sale
Outstanding set of húdiédāo
A set of the rarer long and wide variety with very well-carved hilts and good overall finish.For sale
Southern Chinese húdiédāo set
Wide-bladed pair with eccentric hilt features. Complete with scabbard.For sale
Chinese military saber marked 1876
Southern Chinese officer style saber with later inscription H.Hunt 1876.For sale
Qing páidāo (shield knife)
With Tongzhi reign marks, corresponding to the year 1863.For sale
Fine autumn themed daishō
Both blades signed, its koshirae fine maki-e lacquer work. Ito school tsuba and Mino Gotō style mounts.For sale
Very good Mindan dha
With silver overlay on iron even continued on its hilt.For sale
Mindan Ramayana dha
Fine Mindan dha with a scene from the Ramayana on its blade.For sale
Rare bird dha
One of the rarest forms of dha, with a hilt and scabbard carved like a bird.For sale
Heavy dha
The thick and heavy blade is marked with a script that has yet to be identified.For sale
Tongzhou incident 29th army dàdāo
With markings attributing it to the Tongzhou incident and a Japanese surrender tag.Best for sale
Parang latok
A curious slashing weapon from northern Borneo.For sale
A Khasi dao
These mysterious weapons were already obsolete when the first ethnographers encountered them.For sale
Rare Modang Mandau
With the characteristic carved face hilt and the rarer "sarong seltoep" scabbard.For sale
Sumatran hilted Dutch saber
Using a possibly captured M1905 "klewang" blade.For sale
Very good sikin panjang
Its blade with very fine and complex pamor, brought out by a polish.For sale
Chinese saber with human head pommel
Built around an imported blade, with a human head shaped pommel.For sale
The Wiasemsky Montagnard dha
Collected by a Russian prince from the hill peoples of central Vietnam in 1892.For sale
An excavated dha sword
With heavy blade and copper alloy hilt and lobed guard.For sale
A Sumbawa Kabeala
With broad silver-clad scabbard, worked entirely in repousse.For sale
A large Vietnamese falchion
Description
A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better name for the type.
For sale
Important Daoist jiàn
Carbon dated to the late Ming dynasty, the blade is full of Daoist magic.Gallery
Ainu kuttom-ushbe
The larger Ainu knife worn mainly by chiefs.Sold
Early Mamluk kilic blade
16th-century wootz blade with gold inlays on both sides.Reserved
Early twistcore peidao
Of the early 17th century with high precision twist core forged blade.Best sold
Joseon byeolun-geom
A very fine Byeolun-Geom with lacquered hilt and scabbard, silver mounts, and Japanese blade.Best sold
Early Mughal talwar
It has a narrow but thick blade with an elegant curve and a raised backedge, all reminiscent of earlier steppe sabers.Sold
Explosion pattern weld talwar
A Marwari talwar with an exceptional pattern welded blade.Best sold
Ubu Naminohira tachi
With NBTHK Hozon papers.Sold
Jūyō Masamune tachi
With 1757 Hon'ami papers, 1989 Jūyō token and 2021 Tanobe sayagaki.Sold
17th century nimcha
Famously used by the corsair pirates of the Meditteranean.Best sold
Indian sawfish rostrum sword
Consisting of a painted sawfish rostrum on a talwar hilt.Sold
Very rare early kora
Complete with goatskin-covered scabbard with fine quill embroidery.Best sold
Ma Zhi Zhen Republican duānjiàn
Rare type with stylized bat guard and baitong mounth.Sold
Southern Taiwanese sword
A Taiwanese sword with a long blade of asymmetrical cross-section; the left side is flat and the right side has a ridge on the upper portion of the bladeSold