Kampilan
 

Just wanna show this kampilan. Item measures 39in. overall.

BTW its an ivory kampilan.

nice! can you provide closeups on the blade??

Hi Pinoy

Are you sure that it is ivory? It may be whale bone? The grain structure does not look like ivory to me. Is there another type of marine animal that this ivory could have come from?


Lew

My thoughts exactly Lew. It looks more like bone to me. Still quite nice though. I would also like to see close-ups of the blade as well as the tip if you don't mind. :)

I'm in agreement. I've seen whalebone kampilans and this looks whalebone to me also. Also looks like baided silver bands as well.

Nope. Maybe your just used to seeing newer types of ivory kampilan. This is an early 1900's example. This ivory is similar to the examples shown on the museums in Spain.

Not like any ivory I've ever seen . <shrug> :confused:
I own a couple of 19th C. examples of ivory .
I'd like to see some close ups of the end grain on the crossguard and hilt .

Another vote for bone, here. :)

Regardless, that's a beautiful sword, pinoy. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Got any pix of the tip?

Cato shows two excellent examples on p. 51 of his book Moro Swords (Figures 31,32), one bone-hilted and the other a superb ivory-hilted example that resides in the National Museum of the Philippines. Those two examples and the one above are typical of Maranao work from the Lake Lanao region.

The hilt of Pinoy's example shows a grain most unlike elephant or marine ivory, but is consistent with bone. Whale bone is a good possibility.



Ian.

ivory kampilan

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002668.html

well thanks for the info guys, nice pics on the link spunjer. BTW who owns that ivory kampilan?

Greetings Pinoy, the kampilan in the post is bone, too, I've handled it, not that ivory is better, I prefer the dense polished bone type, doesn't feel as delicate as ivory. Can we see the blade tip? btw Pacquio!lolz

my bad! thanks for the correction, mabagani!!!


yup. PACMAN rulez! :cool: