56 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN EXECUTIONER’S SWORD (KRIS), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY with straight double-edged blade, carved hardwood grip decorated with foliage, in its scabbard 50 cm; 19 ¾ in blade £150-250 57 A MALAYSIAN DAGGER (BADE BADE), AN EAST INDIAN AXE AND TWO MINIATURE DAGGERS (KRIS), LATE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES the first with slender blade, carved horn foliate hilt, in its silver-mounted hardwood scabbard with carved horn top mount; the second with pierced figurative head inlaid with silver lines, tapering ferrule, and short wooden haft, the third and fourth with wavy blades, figurative hilts and wooden scabbards the first: 19.5 cm; 7 ¾ in blade (4) £120-180 58 TWO NORTH EAST INDIAN SWORDS (DAO), 19TH CENTURY the first probably Kamti Shan, with broad cleaver-like blade widening towards the tip, the hilt with copper ferrule, wooden grip bound with rattan over the upper portion, and elliptical bone pommel cap, in its rattan-bound scabbard, open at the front with a large cane hoop; the second with broad blade, brass hilt with carved wooden grip, in its wooden scabbard bound with rattan, complete with its accompanying javelin the first: 49 cm; 19 ¼ in blade (2) £400-600 59 A NORTH INDIAN CLEAVER (RAM DAO), 19TH CENTURY with characteristic curved single-edged blade inlaid with brass lines, small diamond-shaped panels along the back-edge and an eye at the tip on each face, tapering at the forte and incorporating a cylindrical ferrule, turned wooden grip and brass pommel 52.3 cm; 20 ⅝ in blade £250-300 60 A DYAK HEAD HUNTER’S SWORD (MANDAU), AND A MORO SWORD, 19TH CENTURY the first with characteristic blade inlaid with brass pellets on one face, carved bone hilt bound with rattan, in its wooden scabbard and complete with its javelin; the second with single-edged blade, carved angular horn hilt, in its carved wooden scabbard the first: 55.5 cm; 21 ⅞ in blade (2) £350-400 61 TWO INDIAN SWORDS (GARO DAO) AND TWO INDIAN THROWING QUOITS, 19TH CENTURY the first with broad blade of flattened-diamond section formed with a very short sharp point, curved hilt of characteristic form, fitted with a pair of slender quillons with hair tassels, and pierced pommel; the second similar; and the third and fourth of flat circular form, the larger joined by a braze the first: 43.5 cm; 17 ⅛ in blade (4) £200-300
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