Our catalogue > Antique Arms & Armour

This section shows antique swords, daggers & related items from South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, North Africa & the Middle East, as well as examples from the Tribal world.

All items have been sourced from within the UK, often from old colonial-era collections.

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6366

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Carved Philippines Barong Sword with Silver Mounts & Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl

Sulu Islands, Southern Philippines
early 20th century

length: 64cm, weight: 957g

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private collection, UK

6184

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Fine, Carved Hippopotamus Tooth & Horn Tumbok Lada Dagger

North Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 34cm, weight: 475g

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Provenance

private English collection; private Japanese collection.

6522

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Maori Greywacke Club (Patu Onewa)

Maori People, New Zealand
18th century

length: 37.2cm, width: 9.4cm, weight: 1,109g

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private collection, London, UK; prior to that, Christie's Paris, December 2003.

6529

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Superb, Early Aboriginal Spear Thrower (Woomera)

Aboriginal People, Western Australia, probably the Western Kimberleys Region
19th century

height: 62.5cm, width: 8cm, weight: 288g

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UK art market

6431

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Indian Gilded, Enamelled Silver Lion Dagger Hilt or Staff Handle Inlaid with Rubies

Northern India
18th century

height: 9.8cm, weight: 102g (without stand)

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UK art market

6293

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Tibetan Nomad’s Silver-Mounted Knife & Scabbard with Turquoise & Coral & Leather Strap

Khampa, Western Tibet
19th century

length (excluding strap): 26cm, weight: 196g

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Provenance

from the collection of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, UK.

6240

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Fine, Malay Sword (Klewang) with Horn Hilt & Silver Mounts

Malay Peninsula or Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 72.5cm, weight: 854g

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Provenance

private collection, England.

6300

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Inscribed, Chiselled Steel Punch Dagger or Katar with European Blade

Sri Lanka or South India
16th-17th century

length: 63.1cm, width: 9cm, weight: 617g

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Provenance

from the collection of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, UK.

2940

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Fijian Throwing Club (I Ula Tavatava)

Fiji
18th-early 19th century

length: 42cm

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Provenance

UK art market; private UK collection.

4236

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Early New Guinea Wooden & Bone Mace or Club

Papua New Guinea, probably Sepik region
19th century and possibly earlier

length: 64.2cm, diameter of head: 9cm, weight: 190g

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UK art market

4105

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Yemeni Silver-clad Dagger (‘Asib)

Yemen
late 19th century

length: 35cm, width: 23cm, eright: 658g

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UK art market

6302

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Kutch Chiselled Steel Punch Dagger or Katar

Kutch, North-West India
18th century

length: 33.7cm, width: 9cm, weight: 300g

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from the collection of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, UK.

6272

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Indian Arab Silver-Clad Powder Flask

Indian-Arab; Gulf States & possibly Western India - Indian Ocean
circa early 18th century

length: 23.6cm, weight: 760g

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UK art market

5960

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Rare Ottoman Turkey or Balkans Silver Cartridge Box for the Waist

Ottoman Balkans
early 19th century

length: 19.3cm, height: 7.7cm, thickness: 4.2cm, weight: 261g

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Provenance

UK art market

6226

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Unusual Deccan, Engraved, Silver-Gilt Dagger Locket

Deccan, India
17th century

length: 7.9cm, width: 5.2cm, weight: 60g

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Provenance

art market, London

6185

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Complete, Berber Carved Stone Musket Ball Mould

Berber People, Anti-Atlas, Morocco
18th-19th century

length: 6.6cm, width: 5.3cm, height: 4.2cm, weight: 334g

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Provenance

private collection, London

5982

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Balinese Gilt, Silver & Carved Ivory Kris

Bali, Indonesia
early 20th century

full length: 67cm, weight: 907g

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UK art market

5917

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Indian Sufi Mendicant’s Elbow Rest with Concealed Dagger

central or northern India
19th century

height: 37cm, width: 23.3cm, weight: 1,255g

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UK art market

6144

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Colonial Spanish Powder Flask (Yesquero)

Colonial Spanish, Argentina
19th century

length: 7cm (not taking into account the curve), weight: 27.59g

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Provenance

UK art market

4871

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Rare Javanese Majapahit-Style Damascene Iron Double Putut Kris Blade with Maker’s Thumb Prints (Pichit)

Java, Indonesia
12th-15th century

length: 28.4cm, width at widest point: 7.2cm, weight: 150g

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Provenance

private collection, UK

5412

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Three Shan Burmese Silver Mounted Knives (Dha Hmyaung)

Shan People, Eastern States
19th century

lengths: 22cm, 19.8cm, 17.7cm

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UK art market

3203

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Mughal Steel Dagger (Chilanum or Khanjarli)

North India
17th century

length (without scabbard): 37.2cm

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Provenance

private collection; acquired from Simon Ray, London.

4651

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Balinese Damascened Short Sword with Carved Tusk Hilt

Bali, Indonesia
18th century

length (in scabbard): 57.5cm

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Provenance

UK art market

5771

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Pair of Mughal Double-Headed Steel Belt Hooks

Northern India
17th century

heights (without stand): 9.8cm, heights with stands: 13.5cm & 15cm

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UK art market

3792

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Malay Sewar Dagger with Fine Silver Mounts

Malay People, Sumatra or Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 36cm, weight: 326g

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Provenance

UK art market

5646

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Fine, South Indian Silver Tinder Tube

Trichinopoly, South India
circa 1850

length: 18cm, weight: 52g

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UK art market

5443

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Early, Carved Wooden Massim Sword Club or Lime Spatula

Massim area, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
18th-19th century

length: 62.5cm, width at widest point: 8cm

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UK art market

3588

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Small Malay Sewar Dagger with Hippopotamus Tooth Mounts

Malay People, Sumatra or Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 19cm, weight: 49cm

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Provenance

private collection, UK

4657

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Kris with Gilded Silver Hilt

Bali, Indonesia
early 20th century

total length: 56.5cm, length of hilt: 12.2cm, total weight: 576g

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UK art market

4043

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Chased & Engraved Pendang Lurus Sword

Java, Indonesia
18th-early 19th century

length: 50cm

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Provenance

Scottish art market

3594

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Rare, Unusually Large Tridacna Clam Shell Kris Hilt

Malay People, Terengganu, Malaysia
19th century

height (without stand): 11cm, width: 11cm, weight: 302g, height with stand: 17cm

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Provenance

private collection, UK.

5406

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Three Burmese Silver & Ivory Betel Knives

Shan People, Eastern Burma
19th and early 20th centuries

lengths: 11.8cm, 17.2cm and 23.3cm

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Provenance

UK art market

2745

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Malay Kris with Fine Blade & Silver Mounts

Sumatra or Malay Peninsula
19th century and earlier

length: 46cm

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UK art market

4517

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Ovimbundu Carved Wooden Sceptre

Ovimbundu People, Angola
19th century

height: 54cm

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UK art market

4077

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Shield with Gilded Metal Mounts (Tafa Gassa)

Ethiopia
19th century

diameter: 47cm, height (approx.): 20cm

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UK art market

2942

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Omani Silver Gunpowder Flask (Talahiq)

Oman
19th century

length: 19cm, weight: 248g

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UK art market

3217

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Malay ‘Executioner’s’ Kris (Kris Panjang)

Sumatra, Indonesia or Kelantan, Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 68cm, weight: 422g

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UK art market

2598

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Sumatran Minangkabau-Acehnese Cast Brass Shield or Buckler (Peurise)

Minangkabau People for the Aceh Market, Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

diameter: 32cm

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UK art market

4146

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Silver-Encased Dagger (Dha Hmyaung) with Ivory Hilt

Shan people, Burma
18th-19th century

total length: 39.5cm, weight: 348g

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UK art market

3725

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Rare Iban Dayak Mandau or Parang Ilang Sword

Iban Dayak People, Saribas Region, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia
19th century

length: 72cm

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UK art market

3587

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Fine Malay Sewar Dagger with Hippopotamus Tooth & Engraved Silver Mounts

Sumatra/Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 32cm, weight: 211g

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Provenance

UK art market

2010

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Highly Unusual Madurese Kris with Ebony Scabbard and Hilt Carved as a Dutch Resident, and with a Pegon Inscription

Madura, Indonesia
circa 1820

length: 49.5cm, length of blade: 32cm

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UK art market

2184

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Sepik Kominimung Shield

Pora Pora or Bien River, Sepik Region, Papua New Guinea
early 20th century

height: 117cm, width: 46cm

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Provenance

Francis de Sales McHugh Collection, and thence by descent, collected by de Sales McHugh in the early 20th century.

1335

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Rare Matchlock Gun with Gold & Silver Mounts

Coorg, South India
18th century

length: 142cm

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UK art market

3375

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Balinese Silver-Mounted Ritual Knife (Suddha-Mala)

Bali, Indonesia
19th-early 20th century

length: 28cm, width of blade at widest point: 3.8cm, weight: 162g

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UK art market

917

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Ottoman Silver-gilt Khanjar with Watered Steel Blade

Ottoman Turkey
circa 1800

length: 56cm, weight: 906g

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UK art market

918

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Ottoman Silver Khanjar with Watered Steel Blade

Ottoman Turkey
18th century

length: 55cm, weight: 622g

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UK art market

3298

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Iron Trisula

Java, Indonesia
circa 18th century

length: 40cm

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UK art market

3243

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Sumatran Silver-Mounted Klewang

South Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 30cm, weight: 158g

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UK art market

2403

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Malay Sewar Dagger with Silver Mounts

Sumatra/Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 34.5cm weight: 241g

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UK art market

1159

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Borneo Brass Cannon (Lantaka)

Sarawak (Malaysia) or Brunei
18th-19th century

length: 65cm

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UK art market

4207

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Group of Five Chain Mail Fasteners

India, probably Rajasthan
17th-18th century

diameters (approx.): 2.7cm-4.5cm

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private collection, London.

2509

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Malay Sewar Dagger with Horn & Silver Mounts

Sumatra/Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 32cm, weight: 242g

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UK art market

2510

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Unusual Sewar Dagger with Wood & Silver Mounts

North Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 35.5cm

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UK art market

1891

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Balinese Soldier’s Kris

Bali, Indonesia
17th-18th century

length: 54cm, weight: 3464g

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UK art market

1840

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Patani Kris Tajong with Zoomorphic Carved Wooden Hilt

Kelantan, Malaysia or Patani, Southern Thailand
19th century

length: 47.5cm, weight: 507g

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private UK collection

1019

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Zulu Knobkierrie Club

Zulu People, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
19th century

length: 63cm

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UK art market

1538

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Malay Dagger (Tumbok Lada) with Parrot-shaped Horn Hilt

Malay, Malaysia
early 20th century

length: 34cm, weight: 199g

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UK art market

2856

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Malay or Sumatran Kris with Fine ‘Rose’ Blade & Silver Mounts

Sumatra or Malay Peninsula
early 20th century

length: 49.5cm

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UK art market

3000

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Congo Chief’s Axe-Knife

Nsapo & Wongo Peoples, Congo
19th-early 20th century

length: 39cm, width: 22.5cm

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UK art market

2402

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Malay Tiger-Motif Sewar Dagger with Horn & Silver Mounts

Sumatra/Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 30cm

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UK art market

5365

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Fine Malay Kris with Carved Hilt & Inscribed Silver Mounted Scabbard

Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 45cm, weight: 336g

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UK art market

4922

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Malay Kris Panjang with Chased Silver Mounts & Pierced Hilt

Malay Peninsula
18th-19th century

length: 42.5cm,weight: 443g

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UK art market

4819

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Fine Karo Batak Piso Andar Andar Sword with Gold Suasa & Silver Mounts

West Karo Batak People, North Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 55.5cm, weight: 396g

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Provenance

private collection, UK.

4818

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Sulawesi Badek with Engraved Silver Mounts

Sulawesi, Indonesia
early 20th century

length: 28.5cm, weight: 290g

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private collection, UK.

2718

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Early Madurese Kris with Marine Tusk Hilt & Gold Mendak

Madura, Indonesia
17th century & later

length: 46cm, weight: 277g

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UK art market

3244

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Silver-Mounted Sewar Dagger, Sumatra, Indonesia, 19th century

Malay people, Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 33cm, weight: 178g

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UK art market

2717

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Early Malay Kris Perkaka with Ivory Hilt

Northern Malay Peninsula
16th century & later

length: 46cm, weight: 272g

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Provenance

private collection, UK