I've got small children, so display in my home is not an option. Here's a wall in my office. The sword hangers are handy, and permit me to easily rotate through examples from my collection.

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Andrew

Dhat display of yours looks wonderful :D


Lew

Gee Whiz Andrew....maybe i should start collecting dha after all. :rolleyes: :D

lol. Move along....nothing to see here. :D

Thanks. You're dha man, Lew. :D

Naga Sasra, that sweeping display just blows me away, fabulous even if many are out of reach. Speaking of out of reach, I put several items at ladder level several years ago after a good waxing:

for me, the exposure, it is only when friends want to see my collection.
But in the future, I would have a room for my collection. 5 meters * 6 meters
galvano

Display African weapons
 

I hang the knives at the wall or I used magnetic stands.
Luc

Hey Luc, where do you get those stands? :)

Stands
 

:D I do it myself & with a friend who can works the metal (cut sheet of metal)
Luc

Looking at the pictures of the Japanese swords, and lances...it seems to show that the Siamese and the Japs fought in similar fashions when using weapons, and maybe even tactics and strategies. The long lances with the curved cutting blade looks exactly like the ones the Siamese use, and the one with straight penatrating blade looks almost exacty like the Siamese, except the shaft is a little thinner and shorter, if I can remember correctly.

So while going across the web I found these pictures from a travel blog that might be inspirational and also show off some nice weapons
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http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

and one of the best displays I've seen:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

wow... you guys have quite the collections amassed there... :eek:
If i could even have just 3-4 really nice antique ethnographic weapons I'd be contend for years...

I have a couple machete-type blades and two swords, a folding knife, and a badik... :shrug: :D

Here are my displays:

One of my 'old-style' displays.

Well... nice displays folk.... I still have a small room wich is begginning to be overcrowded... :shrug:

And that's nearly a half of my collection, newly aquired pieces toghether wiht stuff I would like to sell (reason downsizing my collection) the other half is with pieces I will never sale is kept in boxes, cos I'm renovating my appartment.

Security an issue??
 

I look at the beautiful collections displayed in this thread and wonder about security in this modern age. It seems that ones personal property, which used to be respected by others, is no longer held in this regard. A shame, and an indicment on modern society!
The unfortunate thing about this is that one can no longer safely display their collection in an open room, and it needs to be kept in a secure place, out of sight. Unless one is fortunate enough to have a seperate room which can to some extent be "fortified", there remains only a large safe, or a hidden place to display ones collection. I have the latter, and although not large, only 2m wide x 600mm deep, it has doors which also serve as a display area, and will in fact hold quite a reasonable number of items.

Very very nice :)

Kerises
 

Most keris are kept in their bags in a chest except for a few favorites which are displayed .

This is an old family chest which I have selected to store them in .
A sort of Pusaka itself . :)

There is a play on words in the crest . ;)




Yes Jose, it runs in the family .. :D

kahnjar 1. Very nice collection, and excellent use of a small space. With room for more. :rolleyes: I do have one observation... The tension, and pressure on the sling of your awsome Martini Henry, will pinch it two, eventually. I've had similar happen to me. :(

A good point and thanks for that. The problem has been rectified. :) Thanks also for your kind comments re the collection, and as you say, there is room for more.
Regards Stuart

This is a very good topic. She is very "warm".
For some reason, it stopped in 2009. Why don't you continue it today?
Perhaps something has changed since that time? :)
And don't forget to show your four legged, furry Samurai, Rajputs and Janissaries :)

Here is a small part of mine...

Beautiful Dhas! Nicely displayed. Also like that you are watching the humidity. A big factor in deciding how, or if to show.

The walls in our house are the display for my collection. ;):rolleyes::D

Really amazing display.

Apropos of dha displays!

Two more. ;)

Thank you! :cool:

Moro display, still place to add! :D

but the most precious, beautiful and dangerous is not included...
what about the Puan Sajen ???

That’s what I was waiting for…… very nice.

Just found out this thread and great to see so many fantastic display of the collections of fellow ethnographic arms maniacs! i wish i know how to display on walls but there are drawbacks if you live in hot tropical countries. They get easily cob webbed and house lizards will soil with their little droppings. And much more difficult to maintain and clean compared to paintings, so I decided to 'display' them in cabinets with glass panels in a room dedicated to my collection. Below are mine.

That's a massive collection - congrats, Nik!

And we all knew/assumed that Detlef got a space problem... ;)

The Puan isn't dangerous but very tolerant! ;)

Don't worry, there is still space! :D

Would like to see the mandaus and balatos! ;):D Like Kai said, a substantial collection. :eek:

Oh no ! those mandaus and balato's deserve some more space. :eek:

I think I have some space for them ;)

Great collection, Detlef !