Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Strange Sumatran/Moro keris? kris? dagger? with a Dutch blade?

Bill M · 9th August 2010, 11:16 PM

Forgot to post outcome of the metallurgical x-ray. Looks like 1646, but fuzzy. Second digit is more like a 6 or an 8 than a 7.

Seems the "R" has to do with Rotterdam if that helps place the age?

9th August 2010, 11:16 PM	#12
Bill M Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: USA Georgia Posts: 1,599	Forgot to post outcome of the metallurgical x-ray. Looks like 1646, but fuzzy. Second digit is more like a 6 or an 8 than a 7. Seems the "R" has to do with Rotterdam if that helps place the age?