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Originally Posted by M ELEY
Very nice clubs with rich patina. Not my area of expertise, but I used to own one exactly like these and according to Edge-Partington's Ethnographic guide, they are from Malaita in the Solomans. Mine had an old museum acquision number on it. I had to sell it to pay bills-  . I miss it very much. |
Thanks for the information.
Which type did you have the pointed "pommel" type, or the squared off type?
I suspect they, or at least the darker of the two, we're bring-backs from the WWII era.
The nature of the surface and it's patina I feel makes the lighter of the two older.