Add on to the sewar collection
 

The recently shown spear point comes with a keris (without scabbard) and a sewar in one lot. It's 36 cm long inside the scabbard, 31 cm without and a blade from 22,3 cm. The bulbous part of the scabbard mouth is pierced through carved and hollow.
Here the sewar after a first clean-up. And the last picture shows my sewar display.

Hi Detlef, a nice presentation.

Regards
Marc

Thank you Marc! :)

Great!
 

Great collection and diplay.

Thank you Albert! :) I have a great affinity for these daggers, such a great variety and beauty of artful carving.
When there is interest and when I find the time I will show them piece by piece.

Regards,
Detlef

Nice one, tlI like the carving style. I just remembered seeing old photos of your collection display - you should update them!

Thank you Jeff! I will show them side by side as soon I have better light here in Germany.

Regards,
Detlef

Hi Detlef,

Nice little daggers, and all with their own interesting different features. A lovely wallfiller!

Kind Regards,
Maurice

Here you go!

Hi Detlef,
A beautiful collection of sewars!

Kind regards,
Maurice

Thanks Maurice! :)

Best regards,
Detlef

Thank you! A great selection.

Hi Jeff,

My enjoy! ;) All assembled in over 30 years of collecting. :) By time I will show them piece by piece.

Regards,
Detlef

Like promised, will show them piece by piece with a short description. Starting with the piece on the left side in up (second picture #9).

Sewar with handle and scabbard mouth made from black horn, scabbard stem seems to be from wood lacquered with resin (?) black, scabbard fittings from mamas (a nickel alloy), blade with a tiny fuller near the spine. I am uncertain which part of Sumatra this style is coming from.

31 cm inside scabbard, 29 cm without, blade 22,4 cm.

Nice waterbuffalo hilt in plain style, Detlef!

Based on the type of crosspiece also being found in blades limited to central highlands near the Sumatran western coast, I'd suggest the same origin. This type of sewar seems quite common and I believe it might be fairly widely distributed across this region (possibly not limited to the Minang groups).

Regards,
Kai

Hello Kai,

Thanks for the information, any source for this? Yes, this type is a very common type, the next one I will show is similar but much more ornate. The one in question I added to the collection even because it's plain, it has its own charme.

Regards,
Detlef

Here pictures from the second piece, the one in down on the left (second pic. #9). Similar style like No. 1, so when we follow Kais suggestion, Central Highlands of Sumatra.
Handle and scabbard cross piece from black horn, both with fine floral carving and embossed thin silver fittings, scabbard stem from wood. Blade fine laminated and with a prominent fuller near the spine.
33,3 cm inside scabbard, 31,3 cm without, blade 22,5 cm.