Southern Chinese double knives
With carved hardwood grips. Complete with pigskin scabbard.
Chinese téngpái
The famous tiger faced rattan shield as used by Chinese skirmishers.
Tibetan or Mongolian quiver
Of an early type with dramatic widened shape.
Early Tibetan or Mongol bow case
With gold and black painted face with geometric decor.
A Korean sword guard
Adjusted for use on a Japanese sword.
Fuchi kashira by Hisayuki
A beautiful signed Japanese ferrule and pommel plate.
Tibetan style pierced saddle plate
With designs of four dragons in scrollwork around a "wish-granting-jewel"
17th century armored vest
An extremely rare sleeveless vest from the Ming-Qing transition period.
Fangshi officer's saber
With a good blade and a set of fittings that exceed the quality of most of this period.
Early yútóudāo
With influences from several cultures that are rarely seen on a single blade.
Chinese Shan presentation dha
Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.
Early militia jian
An early Chinese militia jiàn most likely dating from the Ming.
Chinese forked mace
A forked mace with cast ornament in the middle of the cross guard.
Vintage Korean archery set
Comprising of a bow, arrows, and string sent to the U.S.A. in 1964 plus an associated quiver.
Large Southern Chinese saber
Built around a beautifully forged blade, in full polish, revealing a burl grain pattern.
An antique chángdāo
Its large blade is of ridged cross-section, inspired by the Japanese design.
Early Chinese duǎndāo
With rare downward curving grip as seen on artwork of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Chinese bronze mace (tóngjiǎn)
With large dragon head collar piece.
Republican period fighting jian
A very nice and complete example, circa 1920's-30's.
A rare Qing bow
With translucent horn bellies glued on red pigment.
A rare Jinchuan sword
A royal sword, probably from the Wasi kingdom in present-day Sichuan province.
A Chinese bow by Changxing
Rare extant work of a famous workshop in Chengdu.
A 17th century Manchu saber
A massive 17th century saber blade with markings in Manchu and Chinese.
Chinese crescent moon weapons
Unusual set of paired Chinese maces of good workmanship.
Niuweidao with Guangxu mark
Dated 1895. Large and heavy, a quality piece.
An exceptionally large dadao
With a wide clipped tip with notched upper edge.
Korean knife or eunjangdo
Description
A small Korean knife called eunjangdo, literally "silver knife".
Antique wide bladed hudiedao
Introduction
The hudiedao (蝴蝶刀), are a type of double swords peculiar to the port cities of so
Village militia dadao
Description
A large Chinese double handed falchion of a form that is both related to the niuweidao
A Chinese hook sword
A rather well-made example of its type.
A Yi / Lolo sword
Introduction
The Yi or Nuosuo people are known as Lolo in early Western ethnographic writings.
Taiwanese aboriginal Rukai knife
A fine example with mother-or-pearl decorated hilt and scabbard.
Chinese jade handled dagger
It has a solid pale green jade hilt that is fitted to a silver collar-piece.
Chinese double shortswords
A good set of the first half of the 19th century, with large and rather heavy forge folded blades.
Antique Chinese saber fittings
Description
An antique set of scabbard fittings for a Chinese saber, probably second half of the 18th centu
Rare iconographic Mongolian style knife
Introduction
Many Mongols, the Khalkas in particular, had close ties with the Manchu ruling elite during th
Classic Choshu ship tsuba
The work nice and crisp, the execution has a naturalistic charm to it.
Ono school ship tsuba
Description
A classic Japanese ship tsuba with a motif called “kazeho” (風帆) or “b
Antique Chinese jian
A fine Chinese straightsword blade, of typical Qing form with a rather wide profile.
Republican jian with etched blade
Description
A large and rather interesting Chinese jian dating from the Chinese Republican period.
Late Qing southern saber
With differential heat-treatment, creating a cloudy crystalline effect along the edge.
Republican duanjian with good blade
Description
An unusual piece: Jian with these mountings are usually of the long type, often with a soft ste
"Love of Lotus" Korean guard
Description
Korean ceremonial sabers of the Joseon dynasty are pretty small and often exhi
Ezo style tsuba
Introduction
What are today known as "Ezo fittings" are a style of Japanese sword mounts that are character
A Japanese nanban style tsuba
Description
An interesting little sword guard, of fairly simple form with designs carved i
Chinese openwork (loukong) saber guard
The archetypical Chinese sword guard of the 17th century.
Ancient Ba-Shu dagger
From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.