A very good Philippine bolo
With beautifully carved horn grip.
Burmese double knives
A rare set of twin knives in a single scabbard.
The Rundle dha of 1898
A signed and dated Burmese dha.
Ivory hilted dha
An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.
Burmese sword carbine
A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Execution keris
Often used collector's name for the keris panjang.
Matched Vietnamese kiếm pair
With carved stone handles and superb workmanship in silver and mother-of-pearl.
Song kiếm (雙劍)
The Vietnamese double sword.
Kiếm (劍)
The double-edged straightsword of Vietnam.
Sumatran keris panjang
A type of long keris often described as "execution keris".
Triple golden crown sikin
A sikin panjang with a triple golden crown.
Keris panjang
Literally "long keris", a weapon mostly associated with Sumatra and Malaysia.
Panglima prang
Literally "war commander" were military leaders appointed by the elite in Aceh.
Sikin panjang
A straight, single-edged sword with forked hilt used in northern Sumatra.
Sikin panjang with double crown
A typical example of the better sikin panjang with a golden crown.
Bird head sewar dagger
A charming little sewar dagger from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Khiên (盾)
The Vietnamese word for a circular shield of rattan, much like the téngpái (藤牌) of China.
Chinese Shan presentation dha
Presented by the local Dai nobility to a British customs officer in 1936.
A Shan Kachin style dha
A large Kachin style square-ended dha in Shan style mountings.
Vietnamese double swords
A rare combination of full-length double Vietnamese swords with live blades.
Dha / da (ဓား)
Burmese word for sword, knife or chopper.
A heavy Burmese dha
With a very good, substantial blade with differential heat treatment.
Large Vietnamese trường đao
Of very good quality for this type of weapon.
Vietnamese straightsword
It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.
Sikin panjang with golden crown
With double tiered golden crown.
A large Vietnamese falchion
Description
A rather unusual Vietnamese falchion, by lack of a better name for the type.
Antique Vietnamese swords
A reference list of antique Vietnamese swords and sabers I've had over time.
Fine Malay matchlock musket
A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.
Asian export disc guard
The design, overlaid in silver, gold, and copper, over a crosshatched background shows dragon amongst clouds.
Asian Export sword guard
Private collection. Not for sale.
A very good pedang bentok
Also called klewang sasak by Indonesian collectors.
An Indonesian parang nabur
A saber that is peculiar to the southern part of the island of Borneo.
Dayak blowgun dart quiver
Introduction
The Dayak people of Borneo used two to three meter long blowguns to hunt small
Vietnamese ceremonial saber
A magnificent example of a Vietnamese ceremonial saber, or guőm.
A spectacular Burmese dha
With overlays of vegetal motifs alternated with animals, actual and mythical.
Vietnamese rattan shield
Called khiên in Vietnamese.
A Vietnamese straightsword kiem
With a substantial, quality blade.
Pedang suduk maru
Also known as pedang lurus.
Silver mounted Sumatran saber
With inscription that reads: Raja Pagaruyung or "ruler of Pagaruyung".
Nanban tsuba & Asian export sword guards
For long, "nanban tsuba" literally "Southern barbarian sword-guards" have been a catch-all classification for sword guards for Japanese swords (tsuba), that show foreign influence.
A Vietnamese kiem
A very good Vietnamese ceremonial kiem of the Nguyen dynasty.
Very fine Sikin Panjang
With triple tiered golden crown with enamel decor.
A Burmese dha with openwork handle
Made of a single piece of ivory, with a kneeling figure in its base.
An ivory hilted kiem
The grip made of a single piece, worked in high relief.
Vietnamese musket with silver lock
Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
Vietnamese matchlock
A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.
Horn hilted Vietnamese officer's saber
An unusual Vietnamese officer saber of the 19th century, with an all-horn hilt.
