Very fine ceremonial gươm
An outstanding example with very fine silver and moth-of-pearl work.
Fine Burmese dha hmyaung
With intricately carved ivory hilt depicting a demon on a horse.
Téngpái (藤牌)
The Chinese rattan shield
Ivory hilted dha
An earlier example with an iconographic hilt.
Matched Vietnamese kiếm pair
With carved stone handles and superb workmanship in silver and mother-of-pearl.
A large pihiya kättha
A massive example weighing just over 800 grams. With scabbard.
Tóngjiǎn (銅鐧)
Chinese for a bronze mace.
Shibuichi (四分一)
A copper-silver alloy used to make Japanese sword mounts.
Fuchi kashira by Hisayuki
A beautiful signed Japanese ferrule and pommel plate.
A very good Afghan pulouar
With wootz handle with fine pierced pommel dome.
Jiāgāng (加鋼)
A construction of edged weapons where a separate piece of high-carbon steel is forged into layers of milder steel.
Baktong
Cantonese for báitóng.
Báitóng (白銅)
An alloy of copper, nickel, and zinc used among others for sword parts.
Damascus steel
A rather broad term that is used to describe steel that exhibits a fancy pattern.
Twist-core steel
A type of pattern-welding using twisted rods of steel.
Huāwéngāng (花文鋼)
A type of pattern welding known in English as twist-core.
Vietnamese straightsword
It has a narrow but sturdy blade with a springy temper.
Ancient Ba-Shu dagger
From approximately the 5th to 3rd century B.C.
A large Indian karud dagger
Unusually large and with all-metal handle that opens with a screw.
An Indonesian parang nabur
A saber that is peculiar to the southern part of the island of Borneo.
A fine Chinese yànchìdāo
It comes with its complete set of fittings in a thick gauge of báitóng.
An exceptional khanda
With wootz blade and wootz Hindu basket hilt
Zhibeidao with spectacular blade
Introduction to the type
This type of sword is referred to as zhibeidao (直背刀) or s
Tibetan shortsword with rare blade
With ce rong or "open ravines" pattern of zig-zag lines in the steel.
A fine khanda with pierced hilt
Presented here is a beautiful khanda with an exceptionally fine pierced hilt.
All steel / wootz dagger
The slender blade is made of flawless wootz steel in boldly contrasting shades of silver and dark grey.
Chinese twistcore presentation saber
An unusually large presentation saber in the style of high-end Chinese military sabers.
Chinese saber with U-grooves
With twist-core steel and of early liuyedao form. Probably 17th century.
A talwar with "lehria" chevron blade
With chevron patterned blade of alternating types of steel.
Trousse with "horse-tooth" blade
Accomplished by bending the edge up and down alternately and polishing it smooth again.
A Burmese dha with openwork handle
Made of a single piece of ivory, with a kneeling figure in its base.
Rare Chinese twistcore saber
Background
Most Chinese swords and sabers are made with a hard high carbon steel edge plate sandwich
