PIRA

[tanaruz]

Originally Posted by Ian

Yves,

I'm not sure whether you are saying that pira are rare or the hilt style on this particular example is rare. I have a few pira and some seem to have a similar hilt style as yours. They are shown here with some other swords in my collection that are not relevant to this discussion--these are just some pictures that I had on hand.

Ian.

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Hi,

I mean the hilt form/style. My father said that somewhere he read that this form/style(hilt) is the rarest. Well it took him awhile to get one. And he has been collecting Moro swords since 1976 (and my grandfather, who was in the US Army WW2, since 1946).

Regards

Yves

[chmorshuutz]

I guess I agree on the hilt being rare, among recent samples, you will almost never see any pira that still has this type of hilt.