help with stamp in kampilan-blade!
 

Hi all,

I just came back from a visit of a friend who had a nice kampilan with a stamp in the blade.
It was stamped from both sides near the handle with WCCO? (if I am not mistaken).
I know of barongblades which are made in china were signed with chinese marks. But I never saw a kampilan blade with stamp.
Anyone knows anything about the WCCO-mark?

Unfortunately no pics yet!

Regards,
Maurice

WCCO
 

If my memory serves me well there was another mention of this mark by a member last year or there abouts, it was a brass handled shamshir looking sword that was found on ebay. At the time is was thought to be a WOOO mark.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...highlight=WOOO

Gav

Thanks Gav for the reply.
I sent Hans an email to put some pics in this thread.

It could be the same mark on the thread you refers to.

Regards,
Maurice

Hello Maurice,

Any signs of lamination?

Not too long ago there was a kampilan on offer with LONDON stamped at the base of the blade (I'll try to post a pic). Seems like European companies exported blades close enough to local specifications that these ended up in genuine ethnographic pieces.


Could the last be 0 (zero) rather than O? From the pic on the other thread, I believe that the middle letters were not O (maybe C, maybe something else...).

Regards,
Kai

Hello Kai, it could be that there is lamination. But I am not sure. I asked him to take some pics which will be pasted in this thread.


It could be a zero but I am not sure. But I meant I certain had seen a C and not the O like in WOOO:D

But the mark in the thread Gav refers to seems like the same mark. Only in the kampilan I saw clearly 2 C's in the middle!

I'll come back with pics on this one!

Kind regards,
Maurice

Here are the pics of the whole kampilan, and also of the stamp ofcourse.

When I look at the stamp in the other thread Gav referred to, I see the same spaces between each lettres. So to me it is exactly the same lettres stamped in the blades.

WC CO
 

So I threw it into the search machine thingy and here's what I got :

http://www.watertownhistory.org/Arti...Blacksmith.htm
See the last line .
Seems like it was a fairly large Mfr. :shrug:
Could also fit the time frame; pre-40's WC CO stamped on the blade as noted .

Soo, the Kampilan blade *could* be a remanufactured machete or implement . :)

No ?

I think you hit the nail right on the head, Rick.
Well done!!

Thanks Rick!

Next time I'll use the search machine first!:rolleyes:

But now everyone nows were WC CO is standing for! And not the WOOO!!!:D

Kind regards,
Maurice

Hi Henk and Maurice, it may be so . :)
The only glitch here is that Washington Cutlery didn't export *as far as I know* ,but that doesn't mean that their implements weren't carried abroad by American Soldiers/Adventurers/Planters . :shrug: