It has been a long while. here a small addition from an auction website.
A a shape that is already in this thread. but very nice clear pictures and the combi with hippo ivory. nice.

Hi Alan,

I want to bring your earlier comment back up because nobody really replied to your question. Lots of comments about the "bling" but nothing in regard to your suggestion of a tumpal motif, which makes sense to me.

Peter Dekker notes this in the "Tumpal" glossary entry on his site.

In hands of time, The crafts of Aceh, by Barbara Leigh,
the writer refers a bamboo shoot motif, Pucuk rebung.

In this old thread there is also information : http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=atjeh

A few years later, I am now the new owner of Asomotif's rencong.

I was wondering if this rencong comes from Gayo. It is huge - about 17 inches long altogether.

Also I remember earlier on in this discussion years ago that in Gayo the big ones were a symbol of high status.

I had to take some rust off the blade and re-etch it.