Moro Kris on Pawn Stars TV show

[ThePepperSkull]

I love this show. Informative to those casually interested in antiques of various kinds.

the employees/owners are amusing enough as well. Though I'm not very fond of Big Hoss' attitude somtimes. "Old Man" is always great though.

[Ferguson]

It looked like a separate gangya, so probably early 1900's. The "expert" said it was 18th century, so 1700's? I doubt it. But I would have paid $100 for the blade.

Love the show.

Steve

[laEspadaAncha]

Originally Posted by Ferguson

It looked like a separate gangya, so probably early 1900's. The "expert" said it was 18th century, so 1700's? I doubt it. But I would have paid $100 for the blade.

Love the show.

Steve

Hi Steve,

I forgot about the (likely erroneous) age attribution. Nonetheless, I wouldn't go as far as to put "expert" in quotes... Sean performed weapons restoration at the Smithsonian while working on his postgrad - I would most definitely consider him an expert in antique arms and armor. However, most of us have areas of specialization that supersede our expertise in other areas, and I think he is no exception - I would say his knowledge of SE Asian and Oceanic arms and armor is not nearly as deep as his knowledge of European arms and armor from the Middle Ages through the mid-19th C.

[David]

Originally Posted by Ferguson

It looked like a separate gangya, so probably early 1900's. The "expert" said it was 18th century, so 1700's? I doubt it. But I would have paid $100 for the blade.

Love the show.

Steve

Keep in mind Steve that they pay $100 so that they can sell it for $300-400.

[Lew]

The kris looked a bit off to me. The was pretty thin down by at the base I think this was tourist stuff and would not have touched it.

[Lew]

Originally Posted by David

Keep in mind Steve that they pay $100 so that they can sell it for $300-400.

And as the owner says in 5 years he will wonder why he bought it in the first place.

[Rick]

Yeah, I think he took a real flyer on that piece expecting to reap $300 .

[sabertasche]

I watch the series on a regular basis. My wife hates it and mentioned that this show is really an antique show for rednecks". Not a very nice thing to say but.....well, pretty true. The show really represents an American flavour as there are always guns on the show as well as a desire to fire the guns bought by the pawnshop.

Others who attend the local gunshow say that much of what you see is really set up by the producers to make the show interesting and that the Chumly guy is really an actor. Whatever It's a better waste of time then watching Cosmo Channel.

Greg

[Dmitry]

The Pawn Stars is staged, in a pretty obvious way. It is entertaining, though. Saw a couple of episodes, but couldn't stand that fat kid. He's just annoying.

[David]

Originally Posted by Ferguson

It looked like a separate gangya, so probably early 1900's. The "expert" said it was 18th century, so 1700's? I doubt it. But I would have paid $100 for the blade.

As has been pointed out, their "expert" was not extremely familiar with Moro kris. Firstly this style is not unique to the area as we all know that there are Malay Sundangs. I think he also confused a bit or "kris" info with Indo "keris" when is mentions that they were carried every day by the common man since as far as i can figure the Moro kris is more a weapon of war, not something for everyday person self defense. The Indo keris OTOH, is carried daily by average people. His take on the "good luck/bad luck" hilts also didn't make much sense to me and i don't think this is a tourist hilt, just one that doesn't belong to this form of blade. It's actually a pretty cool hilt and i am wondering if it might be made from horn.