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16th June 2010, 10:55 AM | #1 |
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Some Philippines kris from my collection
Those are my last adquisitions. A good kris with sheath very curious. One of them has a little ivory pommel and good blade, with wood sheath.
Another has cackatua pommel with a unusual sheath, engraved and with 2 details, a little square mirror and a pice of metal at the end of the sheath,and some part of the blade is engraved too. The 2 blades are cover with a barnish. The another kris had been restored by a friend ( only the rattan ) and I donīt have the sheath. ( Flavio, my apologies for the delay in post this kris ). Best regards and I wish you enjoy this pieces- Carlos |
17th June 2010, 01:17 AM | #2 |
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Nice collection, Carlos! Thanks for sharing the photos
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17th June 2010, 03:12 AM | #3 |
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Nice pieces. The kris with the weird scabbard - the scabbard is new and not traditionally made.
The rattan on the other kris could use some stainig but nice work. All the blades could use a little staining to being out the laminiations. The one kris with the engravings has nice talismans - great engravings. Also the one with the ivory appears to be a little older than the other 2 looking at the pommel size and the way the waves are in the blade. Perhaps early to mid - 1800s? |
17th June 2010, 08:44 AM | #4 |
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Hello Carlos,
Thanks for posting your latest acquisitions! I'm with Jose - the blades scream for a good cleaning, polishing, and etching job to bring out their true beauty. Could you post close-ups of the gangya area taken from directly above, please? Do all pieces have a seperate gangya - can't see that from the pics? What's the length of the blades? Regards, Kai |
17th June 2010, 09:08 AM | #5 |
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The kris with ivory pommel has a blade with 20,5 inc, the kris with complete cockatoa pommel has 21 inc and the kris with rattan restored has 21.5inc (blade).
I have take new picture. thanks for the information. carlos |
17th June 2010, 08:00 PM | #6 |
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Sweet collection Carlos!
I need to learn how to weave. |
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