Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Moro kampilan (?) Spanish American war era

JeffS · 7th April 2025, 02:25 AM

Interesting, I only have one Visayan sword with double grind - it may be uncommon. I posted that one previously but it did not draw much conversation. I think that the triple X on spine is fairly common including parallel lines on the sides, but not sure on what look to be Roman tally mark 5's on your example though. It would certainly be interesting if these markings are intended to be numbers. Here is a likely 19C Visayan sword that I have with XXX spine markings. Hope to hear from the experts.

7th April 2025, 02:25 AM	#5
JeffS Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Singapore Posts: 421	Interesting, I only have one Visayan sword with double grind - it may be uncommon. I posted that one previously but it did not draw much conversation. I think that the triple X on spine is fairly common including parallel lines on the sides, but not sure on what look to be Roman tally mark 5's on your example though. It would certainly be interesting if these markings are intended to be numbers. Here is a likely 19C Visayan sword that I have with XXX spine markings. Hope to hear from the experts. Attached Images Last edited by JeffS; 7th April 2025 at 09:13 AM.