Help with unusual Tombak!!
 

Hi Guys,
This item is available locally and is described as an 'Indo Persian dagger', for obvious reasons I assume the attribution is a mistake. Being totally ignorant in your field of interest I was wondering if you would care to take a 'stab' at describing what this particular weapon is. I see it as two unrelated pieces, blade and hilt, put together perhaps by and for a colonial European. The European style hilt looks to be of good quality but I have no parameters with which to judge the blade. This is the only available photograph at the moment. My apologies if I have inadvertently crossed any boundaries with regard to your Forum etiquette.
Regards,
Norman.
P.S. I am not looking for any monetary information regarding this item.

Norman, this item looks like a Javanese tombak to me with a dagger mount, something which is often done with these.
Since this forum is specifically for keris i am going to transfer this over to the main forum for discussion.
:)

Thanks David, just goes to prove I was right about my obvious lack of knowledge re this type of item.
My Regards,
Norman.

nice
 

Nice piece, the second such item of this type and quality that I have seen in as many months, the other having a bone and silver hilt....I'll see it I retained the images and post them...from memory it too was listed as Indo-Persian.....

Gav

David,

imho it doesn't look like but it is a javanese tombak. This type of hilt is very unusual for a tombak.

Perhaps
 

Very European, English or French put together...the hilt seems period era to the Tombok blade to me, maybe put together for Masonic regalia or something similar.

Gav

Hi,
If the hilt is European it looks late 18th early 19thC in style, would that tie in with the age of the blade?
Regards,
Norman.

Well Henk, that is, of course, what i meant... :rolleyes: :)
Yes, let me second that...this is a Javanese tombak and to my eyes a rather nice one at that. :)

Nice piece. Nice shape of the tombak and a very classy old hilt.
But indeed not very Indonesion in style.

Maybe a close up of the gold an silver work near the base can give some more info on the origin of the hilt ?

Best regards,
Willem

the one I passed
 

It seems this may have been a pretty common this to do in the day, here is the one I passed back in August.

Gav