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Greetings folks!
Just got this from eBay. The blade is laminated. The triple crown is missing 3 tips. The hilt is black coral (aka bahar) and the end is ivory. Been looking for one for years. What got me was the laminated blade, gold, and especially the rare black coral. I will make a scabbard for it this summer and one day scrape up the money for the missing gold tips ($ ![]() Enjoy ![]() |
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Whats that green stuff?
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Congrats Jose,
I'm glad you finally have found one! Can you peek how the ivory part is attached to the akar bahar? PS Tim, the green stuff on the golden crowns is enamel. Maurice |
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The green stuff is enamel in the gold recesses.
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crossed post's...
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Thanks Maurice. The ivory seems attached with epoxy but is very solid.
Also the whole piece is 15 inches long (about 37.5 cm). Bigger than I expected! |
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So that is where it went
![]() Unfortunately my budget was not enough to grab it, as it looks like an interestin restauration project. Not a very common type with the akah bahar and golden crowns. The ivory part of the handle, could it be that there has been a golden sleeve on that end ? The handle looks polished, probably done when they fixed the ivory. |
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even if that's not my field, I appreciated this very nice dagger ... ![]() what's made me mad, it's the beautiful hilt in ... BLACK CORAL ![]() for 3 years, I dived 2 to 3 times weekly in Red Sea, North of Jeddah ... our target was ==> "black coral" ... but it's rare ![]() again congratulations à + Dom |
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I agree with you Asomotif - probably polished with the ivory. Do you think it had a gold sheath over the ivory?
Dom - that was one of the big selling points for me - the black coral. Only seen one other one in my life and they wanted a lot for it (no gold with that one). Yes very hard to find. Shocked to see it, and then get it! ![]() |
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[QUOTE=Battara]I agree with you Asomotif - probably polished with the ivory. Do you think it had a gold sheath over the ivory?
[QUOTE] Yes, I am even quite sure. Check out Erik's example on the left. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12406 |
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Arrggggh... I'm stuck in a no-man's land between an objective appreciation of the form and now wanting one myself.
![]() Gotta draw the line somewhere, and my line is somewhere South of rencong. Beautiful piece, Jose... ![]() |
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